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Vol. XLV—No. 22 Bethel Col lege, St. Paul, Minnesota Fr iday, Apr il 10. 1970
1 "Pt*
C n t Elseth views main job
of president as motivating people
Elden Elseth, newly elected
president of Bethel's Student
Association.
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Elden Elseth, newly elected stu-dent
body president, views the
main emphasis of his job as people-orientation.
Says Elseth, "The big-gest
part of my job is to motivate
people to do things; to work with
people, to observe people."
Elseth is a transfer student and
has previously attended Covenant
Bible College in Canada and Whea-on
College. Minnesota is his home
state. He is a junior majoring in
English and possibly Christianity.
His future plans entail either go-ing
to law school and entering pol-itics
or going into the ministry.
He has been involved in inter-collegiate
debate and forensics and
served at student body vice-pres-ident
while at Covenant Bible Col-lege.
This year, at Bethel, he has
performed as a student senator.
Bethel has a more relaxed atmos-phere
than the other two colleges
he attended according to Elseth.
He feels that the closeness of
people at Bethel is one of its
strong points; this closeness is due
to the notion that we all have
Christianity in common.
"The weak points of Bethel are
problems of quality," Elseth stat-ed.
"We just aren't putting out in
some areas like we should be."
This was a reference to the need
for a beefed up athletic program,
more social activities, and more
cultural events.
"One of Bethel's basic problems
is financial," Elseth commented.
"This exists on an institutional as
well as individual level. Institu-tionally,
Elseth ventured that the
school had to increase its resources
in some way — most likely through
better public relations. "We need
to make the Baptist General Con-ference
aware that we deserve
more of their support," he stated.
"Or else, possibly we could build
up our endowment funds through
stock investment."
continued on page 3
Shupe structures Symposiums
to explore human rights issues
Today's seminar gives overview of ecology
The month of April will see an
increase in paracollege activities
on Bethel's campus. Each week,
with the exception of the week of
April 20-25, students will have the
opportunity to involve and inform
themselves on one of the contemp-orary
and controversial issues fac-ing
the American public.
Ecology has become a nationally
recognized problem. This after-noon
there will be a two hour
program in the Seminary Chapel
dealing with Ecology.
At 1:30, Dr. Donald Larson, pro-fessor
of linguistics and anthro-pology,
will be speaking on, the
ecological balance that is needed
around the globe. He believe:, that
the Christian should tend his God-given
environment in responsible
ways.
During the second hour (2:39-
3:30), films and (or) filmstrips will
be used to give another view of the
ecology problem.
No classes will be formally dis-missed
for the ecology seminar.
However, faculty members will be
sympathetic with those wishing
to attend.
Besides the issue of environ-ment,
the seminars will also deal
with Blacks — April 16,17; and
American Indians— April 30, May
1.
The idea for such a program was
the brainchild of former Student
Association Preident, Dave Shupe.
According to Shupe the issues with
which the three symposiums will
deal could be thought of under
the unifying topic of human rights.
"Environment is, after all, a hu-man
right," he stated.
Shupe said he conceived of the
idea after he had received notice
that he was to head the Domestic
Affairs section of the Evangelical
Student Congress sponsored by the
American Association of Evangel-ical
Students, which will be held
in Spring Arbor, Michigan, April
28th through May 2. "I thought
it might in some way help Bethel's
representatives to the Congress to
prepare."
After he had started working on
the project, however, Shupe said
he realized the wider scope it
could have and now gives three
main objectives for the project.
First, each symposium is de-signed
to deal with valid and pres-sing
issues facing Americans today
which the present curricular struc-
In the recent meeting of the
Board of Education, March 20-21
dates for relocation of the college
to the Arden Hills campus was
changed from 1971 to 1973.
In the past two meetings of the
Board of Education, there has been
serious examination of the dates
for relocation of the college to the
Sem Campus in Arden Hills. When
the New Campus Building pro-gram
was approved by the Baptist
General Conference ten years ago
in 1961, the date for relocation was
set for the centennial year, 1971.
By last year, however, with a
slowdown in launching the two
major fund drives the escalation
of building costs, high interest
rates and shrinkage of federal
loan funds, it became evident that
this goal would be impossible to
meet.
The board then examined the
possibility of "establishing an ac-ture
does not allow students or
faculty to examine adequately.
Secondly, Shupe said, "The ad-ministration
is really in favor of
the idea and hopes that if the pro-ject
is successful, that this para-college
approach can be a regular
occurence. From the student's
viewpoint, Shupe sees that it's
success could provide a method
for the "regular hitting of con-cerns.
If this year's project is
successful, future ventures in this
area may be impressive enough to
bring in other colleges."
The third objective of the pro-ject
is to help the academic at-mosphere
of the college. Shupe
stated that he hoped it could "aid
in breaking traditional curricular-extra
curricular and student —
professor barriers.
ademic beachhead" on the campus
by 1971 and phasing the college's
move to Arden Hills. However, the
problems of operating a split cam-pus
apeared so great that this
alternative did not seem to be a
wise option.
The only other alternative, then
seemed to be to reschedule the
date of relocation. At present it
is the wish of the board that the
relocation date be changed to
1973 and that the college make a
complete move at this time.
In light of student opinion and
experience gained from the New
Dorm, revisions in housing plans
will begin soon.
The meeting of the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference in June in San
Diego will determine the extent
to which Bethel will participate
in the capital funds drive of the
Conference.
Board reviews college relocation date
proposes postponement of move to 1973
Senate arranges peace fast participation;
meal refunds to aid relief work in Vietnam
Fasting . . .a way for Bethel
students to help bring peace in
Viet Nam.
Next week, April 13-15, the stu-dents
involved in the cafeteria
program will have a chance to get
involved in Bethel's Fast for Peace.
The Student Senate has made ar-rangements
with the cafeteria ser-vice
to allow those students inter-ested
in giving up meals to sign
up and give the money, normally
used for meals, to a peace project.
Once the student signs his name
to miss a meal, the name is cros-sed
off the list in the cafeteria. At
the end of the three days of fast-ing,
the names of the students who
missed meals, and the number of
meals missed are brought to the
business office, and the Senate will
get a refund for those meals. The
check is then sent to the designat-ed
peace project.
This year, the Senate has decided
to send the check to the Mennon-ite
Central Committee to be used
for relief work in Viet Nam. The
Mennonite Committee has a world-wide
ministery in more than thirty
over-seas countries. There are over
700 Christian volunteers involved
in this service in the midst of un-speakable
poverty and also in the
disease and ignorance in North
America.
The Mennonite Fellowship is
commited to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ as revealed in the Scrip-tures.
They believe their primary
allegiance to Christ and His king-dom
is to develope their witness
to the love of God, neighbor and
enemy throughout the world.
Since the students will be giv-ing
meals for peace in conjunction
with the national peace fast spon-sored
by the Viet Nam Moratorium,
the Senate felt it would be good to
send the money to a project who
would not only use the money for
peace, but to further the message
of Christ too.
The opportunity to help the
search for peace is within our
reach. The choice is our own.
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Ingrown attitudes
depict the college
Next week, Monday through Wednesday, students will be presented
with the opportunity of participating in a nation-wide fast for peace
sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. Instead of sending
the money collected to the general fund, however, we will be giving
the meal refunds to the Menonites for relief work in Vietnam.
The decision to participate was, in my opinion. a good move on
the part of the students of the college. I was proud of Bethel when the
senate passed the motion to sponsor the fast for those who were
willing to participate; though I was a little disappointed that we did
not decide to send our refunds to the general fund.
Discussion which occurred on the subject after the passing of
the bill, however, horrified me. There was under serious consideration
the possibility of changing the bill so that the funds we collected
would go to the Student Missionary Project. I have nothing against
student missionaries, but I was apalled at the ingrown attitudes of
students on this campus.
Bethel students seem to have the general attitude that they and
their causes are the only valid group wihin the sphere of the student
world. As a collect the campus is as bad as an ingrown toenail.
Citizens of the world today and Christians in particular and
students even more paticularly, need to develop a self concept that
includes something more than the world on their doorstep. We must
not be so hesitant to help other people carry out their good ideas. Just
because is wasn't our idea to begin with doesn't make it bad.
The biggest part of this problem is the indifference or ignorance
of what is happening in the world around us. God created the world
for domination by man, but we as Christians cannot dominate if
we are ignorant of what goes on in the world. As students our very
survival today depends upon what we know about the world. A good
place to start learning is with the symposiums presented on campus
this month.
. . . And you viewers from all 16 states will be able to
watch as we endeavor to explore this gas bog which,
during the 20th century—believe it or not—was actually
a populated area known as "Cal-if-ornia."
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by Pastor Maurice Lawson
College Press Service
Shupe analyzes Bethel objectivity,
gives evaluation for improvement
PERHAPS WE CAN COMPROMISE- T ENFORCE BUSSING- IF YOU PEOPLE
AGREE ?O SIT NINE EYCK!
Dean Virgil Olson will bring the
message on Monday. On Tuesday,
Bob Kraning, popular youth speak-er
on the West Coast and director
of teen activities at Forest Home
Christian Conference Center, will
speak. He will be on campus
throughout the day to interview
any who are interested in working
at Forest Home during the summer.
The campus pastor will bring
another portrait of Jesus from the
Gospel of Mark on Wednesday,
with NEW music. On Thursday
Eddie Thomas will give a concert-lecture.
The Friday speaker will be
announced at a later date.
by Dave Shupe, former
Student Association President
I would like to give my evalu-ation
of Bethel College, from my
viewpoint as a senior anthropology
major and (former) student body
president. Such an evaluation
might have two approaches: the
person — how Bethel has influ-enced
me — and an objective an-alysis
of the institution.
Personally, I am quite satisfied
with my time at Bethel. I have
gained a social awareness, an en-joyment
for learning, training in
analysis of problems, and a more
refined faith in the person of
Christ. I have certainly changed
in four years and am very grateful
for those (professors and friends)
who have contributed to my educa-tion.
Admittedly, there are times
when I speculate on what I should
have learned but did not, which
brings me to the second approach,
the analysis of the three principal
aspects of the institution.
(Qualifications to my analysis:
1) I realize that Bethel's negative
aspects are more easily seen from
my present viewpoint — emphasis
on the positive aspects requiring
time, distance, and a selective
memory — though this does not
invalidate my present view of
Bethel's problems, and 2) that if
I compare Bethel to an ideal rath-er
than to institutions with more
problems and less freedom I mere-ly
reflect my hope for improve-ment.)
Social aspect: Perhaps it is a
misconception to think that at one
time in the near past, one could
easily predict some characteris-tics
of a Bethel student, but cer-tainly
the student body is not now
as homogeneous as it has been pre-viously.
However, there still seems
to be a current image (both pub-lic
image and self-image) of the
"representative" Bethel students.
But such an image is false. With
the exception of a spiritual com-mitment,
there is no characteristic
commen to (even) a majority of
Bethel students. One does not need
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to consider just the "extremes" to
see our social diversity, though
this diversity is not in principle
accepted. The unaccepted diversity,
coupled with an assumed but false
central image, perhaps can account
for the fragmentation of social
life, the occasional polarization of
attitudes and the lack of school
spirit found at Bethel. That is, the
image, though false (non-existent),
still has influence and keeps us
from treating each other with the
"unconditional positive regard"
that we need to accept each other
in our diversity. (The Bethel melt-ing
pot is not providing for cult-ural
pluralism.
Spiritual aspect: Often the term
is not used in a social meaning,
but a spiritual one, assuming that
there is a central characteristic
for the institution's spiritual envi-ronment.
But the emphasis —
pietism, the integration of faith
and knowledge, social concern, doc-trinal
correctness — are charac-teristic
only of segments of the
college community. Do we again
have a false central image of a
"typical evangelical Christian" —
(the evangelical tradition expect-ing
doctrinal consensus)? If our
center be the person of Jesus
Christ, the Incarnation, our em-phasis
lacks a sense of vitality or
"celebration". (Perhaps this ex-plains
the seeming consensus that
chapel is presently quite uninter-esting.)
But, again the diversity is
repressed by the false image.
Academic aspect: The model of
unaccepted diversity around an
assumed but false norm is partic-ularly
applicable to the academic
life of Bethel. Like nearly all
other educational institutions, we
have an educational philosophy
and system wherein the natural
students are compared to a norm,
through the grading system (and
through that, to each other) and
are thereby forced to fit their be-havior
to that norm (the average
student). Everyone goes as far as,
but no further than the teacher.
On the contrary, I believe ed-ucation
to be essentially non-
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competitive and non-comparative.
Such a non-competitive atmos-phere
would grant to the student
a type of academic freedom which
he presently does not have, would
both students and disciplines, and
would perhaps encourage a new
sense of academic vitality.
I see, however, a basic lack of
trust in the student by the facul-ty
in their classes, and by the ad-ministration
in student govern-ment.
Rarely are we expected to
graple with concepts that force
our intellectual boundries to their
limits. It is not the difficulty of
the material which causes failure
in college, but the presure of the
pedagogy. The successful can
stretch to fit the Procrustean
system, they master the pedagogy,
not necessarily the material. (One
"learns how to study, and how to
take a test".) Too often this re-sults
in a non-functional educat-ion,
which limits our ability to
penetrate our society, particular-ly
the society of our future.
In each area then, the model
seems to explain the phenomena.
We have an unaccepted diversity
(differences in social attitudes,
spiritual emphasis, and academic
interests and abilities) around an
assumed but false central image
(the typical Bethelite, Christian,
and student), the latter, neverthe-less,
harmfully influencing the
former.
If the model is true to the data,
the solution to many of our prob-lems
would be in 1)identifying a
true, rather than a false, concept
around which we move, and in
doing that, 2) accepting the prin-ciple
of diversity (cultural plural-ism).
Socially, we would continue
to attempt to lower the barriers
we have set between us. Spirit-ually,
we would encourage the
expressions of faith (in chapel) of
all types of Christian students.
Academically, we would commit
ourselves to a curriculum change
radical enough to change not only
our techniques and structure, but
our entire philosophy of educa-tion.
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The Vietnam Moratorium Com-ments
of a Peace Fast on April
13-15 which will be largely focus-ed
on college and university cam-puses.
The endorsements include
more than 212 student body pres-idents
and campus newspaper ed-itors
along with prominent Amer-icans,
such as Julian Bond, Ram-sey
Clark, Jane Fonda, Rabbi Ab-raham
J. Heschel, Senator Harold
Hughes, Mayor John Lindsay, and
Senator Eugene McCarthy.
David Hawk, a co-oordinator of
the Vietnam Moratorium Commit-tee,
explained the purpose of the
Fast: "We will fast for peace dur-ing
April 13-15 for two reasons.
The first is to demonstrate our
moral opposition to the continuing
and expanding war. The second
reason is directly related to the
April 15th Tax Payer Rallies.
Because the government spends
$201 million a day on war and the
weapons of war, we are asking
people not to eat for three days
and to send the money saved while
not eating to aid the victims of the
war. Proceeds from the Peace Fast
Fund will go to the American
Friends Service Committee Viet
nam Relief Program, the National
Welfare Rights Organization, and
the United Farm Workers of Amer-ica.
The Fast represents our com-mitment
to improve the quality
of our common life and to allev-iate
human suffering." Hawk in-dicated
that the Fast will focus on
campuses and among groups of
religious people. He explained that
many students are making arrang-ements
with university food serv-ices
to turn over money saved by
not eating to the Moratorium for
distribution to the Vietnam relief
agency and poverty groups. He also
mentioned that fasting students
in some places intended to come
to dining halls at meal time to
dramatize the Fast.
The Moratorium is also organ-izing
the Tax Payer Rallies on
April 15 in more than 30 cities
across the nation. Sam Brown, a
co-oordinator of the committee
discussed the Committee's plans:
"On April 15th across the coun-try,
people will once again halt
`business as usual' to speak to
their countrymen and to their
President. They will talk about
Vietnam, about the broadening
and about the economic crisis
brought about by the spending for
the war and the Pentagon."
Brown underscored the primary
focus of the activities in a dis-cussion
of the strike of postal
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On an individual level, Elseth
observed that he didn't think that
Bethel should expect students to
pay such high costs. He did not
mention any specific proposals or
plans for lowering student costs.
Bethel should try to completely
move out to the new campus as
soon as possible, Elseth felt. Delay
only means increased costs — a-bout
a million extra a year. He
noted that the quality of construc-tion
in the New Dorm was basic-ally
poor. As far as New Campus
housing in general, Elseth stated
that students should not have to
live in campus housing if they
didn't want to. The administration
should consult students in New
Campus planning instead of erect-ing
buildings that are unsuited to
student needs. Elseth offered no
plans as to how students could
have an effective, active voice in
determining the kind of dwelling
that they and hopefully future stu-dents
will be living in.
Elseth supports recruiting min-ority
students for Bethel's campus.
"We shouldn't do it just so we can
smugly say we have minority stu-dents.
We can contribute to each
other as people. Education means
diversity, different types of people,
different backgrounds." He had not
Friday, April 10. 1970
as yet drawn up plans or devel-oped
a strategy as to how students
could encourage the administra-tion
and insure minority group
recruitment.
"Interim was a good thing. I
liked the flexibility of courses and
the relaxed atmosphere." Elseth
stated in reference to educational
reform. "I have an intense hatred
for grades. Students should have
something to motivate them be-sides
grades. We should learn be-cause
we want to learn. Education
should not be a competitive effort,
but a co-operative effort."
Elseth would like to see stu-dents
help structure their own
courses. "We're paying for our ed-ucation,"
he said. "We should get
something in the classroom rele-vant
to what we want to learn."
Better transportation services—
such as to athletic events and air-ports;
student involvement in off-campus
activities, and increased
social activities on campus are the
goals that Elseth has set for stu-dent
government next year. "Beth-el
doesn't get any big name groups
at all," Elseth stated. "We could
provide some kind of cultural ser-ies
that would appeal to everyone's
taste and include anything from a
symphony to rock music."
The campus co-ordinator, a pos-ition
newly created by the Sen-ate
this year, is in charge of co-ordinating
all the social and cult-ural
events on campus. He also re-ceives
$1,300 per year. The co-ordinator
is appointed by Elseth
and approved by the Senate. Elseth
plans to work closely with the
campus co-ordinator.
Elseth views a main part of his
job as student association presi-dent
as working with student-facul-ty
committees and improving stu-dent-
faculty relations on campus.
When asked how he would accom-plish
this, Elseth replied that he
didn't think it was something that
could be structured.
At present, Elseth has no plans
for giving a state of the association
address giving his view of where
Bethel's students are at now, what
goals he would like to see the stu-dent
association accomplish, and
how to get from where we are to
where we should be. as was done
last year by former student associ-ation
president Dave Shupe.
When reflecting on how he
thought being student association
president would affect him per-sonally,
Elseth stated, "I really
don't know how it will affect me.
It will probably make me more a-ware
of the things that are going
on at Bethel."
Moratorium Committee
sponsors college peace fast Elden Elseth feels weak points of
to clemonstrate against war Bethel are problems of equality
New dorm is the good, bad, and the ugly
One of the New Dorm's assets is its quite, park- New Dorm lounge areas combine both "the good" Seams in hallway carpeting are beginning to
like setting. and "the bad" with a place for all residents to meet, separate.
and . . . interact . . . with each other.
by Dave Greener
THE GOOD
It is located in Arden's Hills,
three and one-half miles beyond
"The Last Frontier." It is situated
by hills and trees, a tiny creek
and a nearby lake. It is known as
New Dorm and it is the beginning
of a new Bethel.
The 120 residents ride the bus
between the two campuses to-gether.
They have socials and open
houses. They might see each other
more often than if they lived in
separate dorms. "It's like our own
little family out here," says one
female resident and another feels
that in this co-ed dorm there is
"a sense of unity" and a "bond."
A co-ed dorm such as New Dorm
can expand social horizons. "It
provides easy access to interac-tion,"
says one male resident, "if
you want it." Another guy likes
the idea of getting to know other
kids and feels its easier to meet
girls because its co-ed. One girl
believes that with this co-ed dorm
she gets to know guys in a brother-ly
sense, instead of as dating or
marriage partners."
But besides the people who live
in the dorm, there is the dorm it-self
and its surroundings.
"I can't believe how quiet it is
out here," says one girl resident.
"The facilities of the building are
really good," says a male resident.
Perhaps most significant of these
would be the three levels of loung-es
separating the two wings. There
are also two "recreation" rooms
that include kitchen and laundry
facilities as well as a television
and a ping pong table.
Resident's rooms are carpeted
and at least one co-ed likes the size
of her room, the big closet, the
mirror, the bulletin board. Other
people enjoy suite living. There are
study rooms on four of the wing-floors.
Some students appreciate New
Dorm's location and atmosphere.
One guy terms it a "park-like set-ting,"
another finds it "nice being
removed in the country." For some
the daily return to the dorm may
be a change of pace and place from
the other campus.
THE BAD
But not all at the New Dorm is
"roses." Among other things, there
is no food service, the parking lot
is not paved or lighted and the
recreation rooms have been lacking
in suitable furniture. Futhermore,
bus service is sometimes a prob-lem.
Currently New Dorm students
eat meals on the main campus. If
they are through with classes in
mid-afternoon, for example, they
must stay and wait for supper or
if they go back to the dorm, they
must make an extra trip.
Food service in the new semi-nary
dining hall had been hoped
for this year and had even been
promised, through departmental
slip-up, to start last March 1. It
was discovered, however, that
health regulations would necessi-tate
using a sanitized van for trans-portation
of food from the old
campus. This "monkey wrench" at
least brought about such compen-sations
as another bus run at sup-per
and a few more "special meals"
at the dorm (the rules permit oc-casional,
not regular, food trans-port
with the present vehicles).
But New Campus food service (at
least for suppers—an arrangement
might be made for lunch) will come
only in an uncertain future.
Another "problem" matter is
the parking lot. Unpaved, it is in
a temporary location. Unpaved it
has sand, dirt, and clay that gets
wet during snow-melting and rain-fall.
This can get onto people's
shoes and tracked onto the carpet-ing
in the dorm. Futhermore, the
parking lot is unlighted—a light
might be a deterrent to burglary.
Another item is the lack of "com-fortable"
furniture in the "recrea-tion"
rooms. When first designed,
their function was unclear. Most
of the furnished chairs were and
are comparatively uncomforaoble.
Residents await something better
and in the meantime are even buy-ing
some used furniture to com-pensate.
(It might be noted that
while the furniture in the lounge
area may be more comfortable, it
is not always sturdy.)
It is things like the parking lot
and the furniture situation that
give rise to the idea, as expressed
by one resident, that the adminis-tration
treats things at the New
Dorm as temporary, "they never
want to do anything out here."
For their part, the administration
would question the value of
spending a few thousand dollars
for surfacing a parking lot that
will be moved, and $800 to $1000
for the lighting. As for furniture,
thus far they have apparently fol-lowed
other priorities.
In general, various programs
have been planned (such as the
commons area that was hopefully
to have been built onto the dorm
this year), but as Dean Muck points
out, the phrase "when funds are
available" accompanies them. Mo-ney
then is a problem for everyone.
Bus service is sometimes another
"problem." The chief faults have
been when buses sometimes are
late or don't run at all. For his
part, Tom Molin, student bus ad-ministrator,
has shown a willing-ness
to be flexible on scheduling.
THE UGLY
Don Rainbow woke up early that
morning and so did others. The
house parent's first drowsy reac-tion
to that brief, yelling-running
raid by Edgrenites last month was
that the New Dorm was collapsing
and people were trying to get out.
On the other side of the dorm
from Mr. and Mrs. Rainbow lives
housemother Mom Sargent. While
in their apartment, she and her
daughter can sometimes hear tiles
falling off the walls of their bath-room.
Students first moved into the
New Dorm less than two years ago
and construction problems have
been in evidence to them and
others ever since.
The stairs are wooden, a person
can tell that by simply walking
down them (as one student per-haps
somewhat exaggeratingly
phrased it, "When you come down
the stairs, you think you're going
to fall through."
The wooden floors are not al-ways
level—warping has occurred.
The dorm is carpeted but the car-continued
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U.S. cited most overpopulated
New Dorm's economical construction in Kentucky Prof's comparison
`more money to be spent in repairs' wit.k India's ability to support life
continued from page 3
peting is wearing (on the stairs)
and the seams are beginning to
disconnect in some hall areas.
Several floor tiles have come up
in the boy's washroom (they have
now been glued back) and three
doorstops have been pushed
through walls (why not? They
lacked adequate backing.) Foot-long
cracks long ago appeared on
some walls when the building be-gan
to settle and there have been
instances of localized over-heating
and one case where condensation
from a pipe caused water to ap-pear
on the floor of a carpeted
room.
Why did these problems ever
arise? Answers can be found in the
by Anne Dalton
People, power, pollution and
natural resources are the topics
that will be dealt with at the 24th
Regional Meeting of the North
Central Section of the American
Scientific Affiliation. The meeting
will be held Saturday, April 11 at
the Arden Hills Campus of Bethel
Theological Seminary.
The conference is entitled, The
Tragedy of the Commons, or
Christian Responsibility and The
Enviromental Crisis. Dr. Donald
Larson of Bethel's Social Science
Department will introduce the ses-sion
by reviewing Garrett Hardin's
paper entitled "The Tragedy of
the Commons", which was pub-lished
in 1968 in Science. This
will provide a background for all
the discussion groups.
Following the introduction a
Symposium will be held with a
member of each discussion group
giving a brief 10 minute presenta-tion.
Dealing with the topic of
People will be Dr. V. Elving An-derson
of the University of Min-nesota.
Dr. Kenneth Whitby, also
of the University, will concern him-self
with Power. Floyd Forsberg
of the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency and Russell Johnson of
Bethel College will deal with Pol-lution
and Natural Resources.
Following the Symposium the
participants will break into small
groups for discussion. The basis of
discussion in each group will be
man's lack of knowledge concern-ing
his own contribution to the
problems of overpopulation, pollu-tion
and the depletion of natural
resources. Man therefore turns to
outward sources for solutions to
his problems rather than looking
to himself.
history of the dorm.
The dorm was the gift of an
anonymous donor who stipulated,
among other things, that it be con-structed
by the end of 1968 and
that it contain space for 120 stu-dents.
The offer, of course, was
unanticipated. Bethel had plan-ned
on constructing some of the
academic complexes first.
The gift was accepted. Original
architect plans had to be drawn.
Because of the time factor, plan-ning
could not be lengthly. Even
with the gift of $500,000 finances
were limited (besides the stipula-tions
of the donor, the costs of
excavations and bringing in a gas
and water source were of course
incurred) and Bethel, at the time
could not add much to them. More-
Each one of the discussion
groups will focus attention on one
of the four areas presented in the
Symposium. The resource people
in each group will include 1) the
group discussion leader 2) a spec-ialist
(the Symposium speakers) 3)
a pastor or theologian 4) a grad-uate
student. All of these have
given some previous attention to
the subject matter.
The groups are entitled:
Group I—"People" — The Pop-ulation
Crisis and Po-tential
World Starva-tion.
Leader: Robert
Bohon, Senior Chemist,
3M Company, St. Paul
Group II—"Power" — Electrical
Power Generation and
Ecological Balanc e.
Leader: Robert Carl-son,
Department of
Physical Sciences, Be-thel
College
Group III—"Pollution" — An Ef-fluent
Society, t h e
High Price of Technol-ogical
Progress. Lead-er:
Oscar M. Lund. De-partment
of Agricul-ture,
Economics, Univ-ersity
of Minnesota
Group IV—"Natural Resources"—
Preservation or Deple-tion
of Natural En-dowments.
Leader:
James Nordstrom, De-partment
of Animal
Science, University of
Minnesota
Following the discussion groups
the entire body will reconvene and
each group leader will present a
brief summary of his group's dis-cussion.
The cost of the day is $1.00 ($.50
over, the dorm was a pilot pro-gram;
also, within the budget
there was some experimentation.
The New Dorm was built, ergo
almost had to be built, economi-cally.
And the results were eco-nomical.
As one resident comment-ed
"It was rather tragic that it
was put together in such a poor
manner . . " and went on to point
out that more money will be spent
in the present structure plus re-pairs
than a more adequately con-structed
original building.
At least, perhaps, things can be
learned from the pilot project.
Glen Hayne, Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds, is well
aware of construction problems and
they are being considered in the
planning of the new campus.
and one half carpet on stair-worn.
for students) which covers the cost
of arrangements and publicity.
The schedule of the day is:
12:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome and Invocation
1:10 Introduction by Dr. Larson
1:30 Symposium
2:30 Small Group Discussion
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Panel — Discussion Sum-maries
and Conclusions
4:30 Business Meeting
The sponsoring American Scien-tific
Affiliation, Inc. is an organiz-ation
of evangelical Christians who
are trained in biological, physical,
and social sciences. Their purpose
is to study the relationship be-tween
science and Christianity.
Students and faculty with ques-tions
or desiring more information
should see Dr. Don Larson, Robert
Carlson, Russell Johnson or Dr.
Arthur Lewis.
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by Wayne H. Davis, Professor
of biology, University of
Kentucky
(CPS) — The Uuited States is
the most seriously overpopulated
nation in the world today. I define
as most seriously overpopulated
that nation whose people by virtue
of their numbers and activities
are most rapidly decreasing the
ability of the land to support hu-man
life.
Compare the U.S. to India, for
example. We have 203 million
people and they have 540 million
on much less land. But let's look
at the impact of people on the
land.
The average Indian eats a few
cups of rice a day, draws a bucket
of water from the communal well
and sleeps in a mud hut. In his
daily rounds to gather dried cow
dung to cook his rice he has a
rather small impact on his environ-ment.
He does not clamor for
highways. jet-ports, and steel mils.
An American on the other hand.
will destroy a piece of land on
which he will build a house, gar-age
and driveway. His employer
will destroy a piece of land to
provide him a parking space as
will the developer of his shopping
center. The government will pro-vide
a road to his house and a
piece of ground on which to dump
his daily eight pounds of garbage.
With 38 times the per capita
GNP of the Indian, our citizen's
demand for the latest fashion
will cause cotton farmers to kill
the southern streams with endrin,
his demand for power will cause
the miners to kill streams with silt
and acids and his (manufacturer-induced)
demand for steel to re-place
last year's auto will cause
U.S. Steel Corp. to kill the Great
Lakes by increasing the daily e-quivalent
of 130,000 junked autos
Life says it dumps into Lake Mich-igan.
And in hundreds of ways he
will contribute to the pollution of
our oceans causing the final death
of our fisheries which the Com-mercial
Fisheries Review for Oct-ober,
1969, described as a "nation-al
problem" and a trend which has
"become precipitous in the past
seven years."
To supply him with his 26,000,000
gallons of water to pollute in his
life-time, we will build a reservoir
and flood the farmland. He will
contribute his share to the annual
142 million tons of smoke and
fumes which killed the spinach in-dustry
in southern California, are
killing forest trees and decreasing
the amount of sunlight reaching
our land. He will contribute his
share to the annual load of seven
million junked cars, 20 million tons
of paper, 48 billion cans, 26 bil-lion
bottles, and a rapidly increas-ing
number of plastic Chlorox and
antifreeze containers our environ-ment
is expeceted to absorb each
year. He will poison the land with
the lead, nickel and boron from the
21,000 gallons of gasoline he will
use in his lifetime.
He wil eat 10,000 pounds of meat.
To supply this demand. cattle will
eat plants on western range land
and the nutrient minerals are pas-sed
to our friend who flushes them
down the toilet and into the ocean.
This life pattern, unknown in the
erosion and lowering of the water
table by pumping out ground water
for irrigation and city and indust-rial
use, to hasten the destruction
of our land's capacity to support
people.
Because the American is far
more destructive of his land than
citizens of other overpopulated
lands are to theirs, I want to in-troduce
a new term which I sug-gest
be used in all future discus-sions
of problems of human pop-ulations
and ecology. We should
speak of our numbers in "Indian
equivalents" or IE. An IE I define
as the average number of Indian
citizens required to have the same
detrimental effect on the land's
ability to support human life as
would the average American. This
value is hard to determine. I take
a conservative working estimate
of 25. My Indian friends say this
is much too low. One person sug-gested
to me 500 as more realistic.
But let's use 25 as our IE.
In terms of IE, then, the popu-lation
of the U.S. is over four bil-lion.
And the rate of growth is
even more alarming. We have by
far the most serious population
growth problem in the world. We
are growing at one percent per
year. a rate which would double
our numbers in 70 years. India is
growing at 2.5 percent. Using the
IE of 25, our growth rate would be
10 times as serious as India's if
our people had their life expect-ancy
of 35 years. With our ex-pectancy
of 70 years, our growth
problem becomes 20 times as ser-ious.
But this cannot be true you say.
I am playing with statistics. You
are right. I am assuming 70 years
life for today's baby at today's
level of affluence, and such an
assumption is absurd. If we con-tinue
population growth or rape
of the resources, or both, IE will
drop so drastically that by the
year 2000 we may think the aver-age
Indian is fortunate.
So we should not worry about
the hungry nations. The tragedy
facing the U.S. is greater and more
imminent than theirs. India will
be there after the U.S. is gone.
She will have colossal famines, but
the land will survive and she will
come back as she always has be-fore.
Our citizens vary tremendously
in IE. If we plot IE vs. its recip-rocal
(the percentage of land sur-viving
a generation), we obtain a
linear regression. Now if we place
occupation types on this graph we
would find the starving Blacks of
Mississippi on one end. They would
approach unity in IE and would be
least destructive to the land. At
the other end of the graph would
be the politicians slicing pork for
the barrel, highway contractors,
real estate developers and public
enemy number one — the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
So, blessed be the starving Blacks
of Mississippi with their outdoor
privies, for they are ecologically
sound, and they shall inherit the
nation. Young people who are
working with these folks in hopes
of saving the nation are working
on the wrong end of the graph.
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Everyone must learn to be submissive to elders, laws, and the majori-ty
rule. This is the natural order of life until the harmony is broken by
an overload of power which leads to injustice and rebellion.
Likewise most of the material dispensed at Bethel is digested quietly
due to our former training in the submissive field. But something has
burdened the otherwise well proportioned system and has promoted re-bellion.
To make myself clear I will simply say that the administration
has taken advantage of the respectable students and imposed on him a
tuitional load for exceeding a just capacity!
The reason for the shift of weight lies in the student body as a func-tional
force. The Christian students were well trained in the art of lying
down to people of higher rank since it is a Christian virtue to be a peace-maker.
But what most fail to see is the sin of fogging the students to
steal their money.
To solve the problem someone mentioned the balance of operating
cost between the college and Seminary but no movements have been
made. The campaigns used it to win moves to become another cog in
our useless government. Time is spent in the senate rolling censored
bills up blocked alleys. So things must be done outside of senate and
include all sensible students.
We pay less per year than Macalester students by 350 dollars and
less than Hamline students by about the same, yet our facilities fall so
short that a comparison is impossible.
One excuse that we are given is that we have a college coming up
out somewhere in Arden Hills. As long as I lived there I only saw barren
hills and a lot of frustrated dreams. This procrastination of the truth can
no longer be accepted and we students must move now. We must talk
among each other. We must back our student leaders with our personal
views, talk with the administration and ask them who we pay and sup-port
and why.
Students must come to the realization that this is our school not
the president's or the Dean's or our daddy's but ours. We pay, we learn
and I hope we unite.
Friday, April 10. 1970
The Black Symposium held at
Bethel next week will approach
the concept of blackness from a
personal and cultural viewpoint.
Jerry Jenfa, a junior from Ni-geria,
will be the featured speak-er
next Wed., April 15 in chapel.
He will talk on his feelings and
attitudes towards Bethel and how
he relates to Bethel.
Edward Thomas, former Bethel
music professor and resident art-ist,
speaks next Thursday in chap-
Edward Thomas, Bethel Music Professor (on Sabbatical this
year) and resident artist, will be speaking in Chapel on Thurs-day
and will be giving a recital Thursday evening at 8.
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Guy Wuellner
to give piano
recital tonight
Mr. Guy Wuellner, concert pian-ist
and professor of piano at Drake
Univerity, will present a recital at
Bethel College on Friday evening,
April 10 at 8 p.m. This is Wuell-ner's
second appearance as a re-citalist
at Bethel Colllege.
Guy Wuellner has participated
in the Master classes of Paul Ba-dura-
Skoda, Jorg Demus, and Al-fred
Brendal at the Internationales
Kulturzentrum in Vienna, and in
Master classes at Fontainebleau in
France under Rafeal Pupana and
Robert Casadesus.
In addition to the evening re-cital,
Wuellner will be teaching a
piano workshop at 12:30 to 2:30.
Both the workshop and the re-cital
will be held in the fieldhouse.
There will be no admission charge
for either the workshop or the
recital.
el. He will explain what's happen-ing
in relation to blacks and clas-sical
music; more specifically a-bout
the organization of which he
is executive director, the AAMOA
(Afro-American Music Opportun-ities
Association, Inc.)
That evening at 8, Ed Thomas
and Mr. John Patton will present
a lecture-recital on the history of
Black music covering everything
from classical to jazz music.
Thomas, Jenfa share in
black symposium here
j-Sooti
Planetary generation gap will force cultural change
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Margaret Mead, a noted anthro-pologist
and dubbed a "dirty old
women" by a hostile U.S. Senator,
has recently (copyright 1970) auth-ored
a book, Culture and Commit-ment,
which is a study of the
generation gap that is "right on".
There has always been conflict
between generations. However,
Mead maintains that the scope of
today's generation gap is world-wide.
She uses three models of
inter-generational behavior to clar-ify
her analysis. These are post-figurative,
cofigurative, and pre-figurative
cultures.
Postfigurative cultures Mead i-dentifies
as those where children
learn appropriate behavior from
their forebears (parents or grand-parents).
"Change is so slow and
imperceptible that grandparents,
holding newborn grandchildren in
their arms, cannot conceive of
any other future for the children
than their own past lives. The
past of the adults is the future of
each new generation; their lives
provide the ground plan. The chil-dren's
future is shaped in such a
way that what has come after child-hood
for their forebears is what
they, too, will experience after
they are grown." Thus, there is no
break between the experience of
the old and the experience of the
young. Postfigurative cultures ex-isted
up to the beginning of civ-ilization.
In cofigurative cultures the in-dividual's
behavior is modeled af-ter
that of his peers. Elders still
maintain authority, but it is mod-ified
by peer group pressure.
"Where cofiguration among age
mates has become institutionalized
throughout the culture, one finds
the phenomenon of youth culture
or "teen-age" culture; age strat-ification,
encouraged by the school
system, becomes increasingly im-portant."
This model became prevalent in
the U.S. around the beginning of
the 20th century. The model —
which Mead feels is currently the
model for behavior on an inter-national
scale — also exists where
ethnic groups are forced to move
into different cultures for various
reasons and lose their sense of
continuity; or where the state ac-quires
and institutionally delegates
former parental authority (in post-figurative
cultures) for the child's
socialization. (Schools are one ex-ample.)
Just as the old postfigurative
cultures broke down and reformed
as cofigurative ones due to tech-nological
advance and increased
complexity of society; Mead feels
the present cofigurative culture
pattern is disintegrating and a new
model is taking shape — prefig-uration.
In prefigurative cultures, the
youth reject the older generation's
life style or behavior models and
create their own based on their
unique experience. "Even very re-cently
the elders could say: You
know, I have been young and you
have never been old. But today's
youth can reply: You never have
been young in the world I am
young in, and you never can be."
The elders, then, ideally look to
the generation of youth for guide-lines
to behavior; for the youth
are more experienced and know-ledgeable
about what is going on
at the current time.
Mead feels that today's inter-nationally
dissident and activist
youth are leading into the pre-figurative
culture form. What con-ditions
have brought about an in-ternational
youth revolt? Today
there is a world community with
shared knowledge, change, and in-stant
communication. The world
keeps on getting smaller through
world-wide travel and communica-tion.
Today's youth are more aware
of world-wide problems and pos-sibilities.
We are still reaping results of
the scientific revolution that start-ed
in the 19th century; such as
computers, increased development
of food resources so that it is
now technically (but apparently
not politically) possible for every-one
on this planet to have a satis-fying
life in material terms.
"Youth live in a world in which
events are presented to them in all
their complex immediacy; they are
no longer bound by the simplified
linear sequences dictated by the
printed word. In their eyes the
killing of an enemy is not quali-tatively
different from the murder
of a neighbor. They cannot recon-cile
our efforts to save our own
children by every known means
with our readiness to detroy the
children of others with napalm.
Old distinctions between peace-time
and wartime, friend and foe,
"my" group and "theirs" — the
outsiders, the aliens — have lost
their meaning. They know that the
people of one nation alone cannot
save their own children; each holds
the responsibility for the others'
children."
"Today, all the people of the
world are part of one electronic-ally
based, intercommunicating
network, young people everywhere
share a kind of experience that
none of the elders ever have had
or will have. Conversely, the older
generation will never see repeated
in the lives of young people their
own unprecedented experience of
sequentially emerging change.
This break between generations is
wholly new: it is planetary and
universal."
Mead feels that children today
face a future that is so deeply un-known
(unlike the assumed pre-dictability
of conditions under the
postfigurative and cofigurative mo-dels)
that the new prefigurative
model is needed.
Adults have to realilze that they
cannot use the values and experi-ence
of their own youth to under-stand
the youth of today. "We
must create new models for adults
who can teach their children not
what to learn, but how to learn;
and not what they should be corn-mitted
to, but the value of com-mitment."
What is necessary be-tween
the generations is co-opera
tion, not coercion.
Culture and commitment. What
is needed to bridge the generation
gap is a culture that both gener-ations
can honestly be committed
to. But this cannot happen when
two fundamentally different value
systems and philosophical prem-ises
underlie the two cultures. So
we currently have such symbolic
incidents as Abbie Hoffman's wife,
Anita, retreating with Abbie from
the courtroom shouting to Judge
Julius Hoffman, "We'll dance on
your grave!"
Whatever you think of today's
youth, the generation gap, anthro-pologists,
or dirty old women who
try smoking marijuana, Margaret
Mead's latest book offers one of
those things called a "viable al-ternative"
for the nitty gritty prob-lem
of alienation between the gen-erations.
Culture and Commitment
is engaging and intriguing read-ing.
It's well worth taking time
to read the book.
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The Column
by Tim Weko
I sure hated to see Easter vacation come to an end, especially now
that the weather is finally starting to come around. But look at it this
way—there are only about 15 Monday-Wednesday-Friday's left. The kite
fliers and the guys and girls dotting the lawn to catch the sunshine indi-cate
spring fever in its worst form. This is when everyone starts cutting
classes in order to prepare his body for the summer tanning season.
What this all means, though, is that in a week or so we should start
hearing rumors about some upcoming inter-dorm water fight and/or
panty raid, for the not-too sophisticated. Last one in is a "dirty rotten
egg."
This also seems to be the time of year for playoffs of one sort or
another. The NBA (National Basketball Association, for the unenlight-ened)
is currently involved in its semifinal round. Of course the Mil-waukee
Bucks will win it all, I hope. Also the National Hockey League has
begun its Stanley Cup tournament, and Minnesota's own North Stars are
involved by virtue of a 3rd place finish in its division.
If anyone is wondering about the strength of the Western division
let it suffice to say that it can't be too tough if the North Stars could
lose about 50 games in a row this winter and still finish third. The Eastern
division playoffs will probably decide this year's Stanley Cup champion
since all the East will have to do is show up to beat the Western repre-sentative.
Bethel also has a number of playoffs starting now too. These are
the intramural battles including wrestling, coed doubles badminton,
various forms of handball. and pingpong. Although intramural teams
still collect points for the over all championship from these matches,
these are the more individual of Bet1-.e1 intramurals.
So far the most interesting event seems to be in the heavyweight
division where Dr. James Rodgers reigns unchallenged. It would prove
quite interesting to watch Rodgers wrestle, particularly after watching
and listening to him during the now finished intramural basketball sea-son.
So far Rodgers has no challengers and if this continues he should be
able to win by forfeit without too much difficulty.
The baseball team, at least a major part of it, stayed here during the
vacation and practiced in the fieldhouse. Things were going real well,
and the players seem to be optimistic about the season's prospects. Mean-while,
the track team was down in Missouri for it's annual Easter track
trip. It was termed successful by a number of people. Good luck to both
teams.
Ladies' basketball team
ends successful season
Cindermen meet St. Olaf
after Missouri S. Dakota
Bethel women wrapped up a
winning season in pre-Easter play
against Eau Claire State University
with a 50-46 win. Their record
stands at 6 wins and 4 losses.
Bethel scored 406 points to their
opponents' 391.
The team also participated in
a basketball tourney at the Univ-ersity
of Minnesota where they
pulled through with a 2-1 recard.
By far the most exciting game of
the tourney was the game with the
University's "B" team. Barb Elliot
won the game for Bethel when she
A group of 45 Bethel students
were greeted by sun and sand, sea
and surf and 100,000 fellow col-legians
as they arrived on the
famed Daytona Beach, Florida.
The group left the Bethel cam-pus
on Friday, March 27, in a car-avan
of five cars, picked up anoth-er
earful in Chicago and met the
remaining three carsful in Florida
on Saturday evening.
As the Bethelites checked in at
Daytona they became a part of
approximately 2,000 other students
participating in a plan called
"Operation Sunshine." This group
of 2,000 were sharing Jesus Christ
on the beaches under the direction
of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Crusade had scheduled for the
Operation Sunshine as a time of
spiritual growth and encourage-ment
for the tasks they were fac-ing
both on the beaches and back
on their respective campuses.
The speakers included Joshua
McDowell, Campus Crusade for
Christ staff international; Rev.
Peter Lord, pastor of First Baptist
sunk a free throw with no time
left on the clock. Bethel also de-feated
St. Cloud's "B" team, after
losing to their "A" team.
Scoring honors went to Linda
Schmid who had 145 points for the
season. Sharon Johnson followed
with 127. Karla Ask captured the
free throw honors with a 100 per
cent free throw percentage.
With a winning season behind
them and with a majority of re-turning
players, the women's bas-ketball
team is looking ahead to a
good season next year.
Church, Titusville, Florida; Dave
Perry, student at Asbury College
in Kentucky; and Andre Kole, a
famed magician and an expert in
the area of extra-sensory percep-tion.
The sharing done by the Crusade
personnel known on the beaches
as the God Squad was done on a
one-to-one basis with over 2,000
decisions made during the two
week operation campaign. The
Armegeddon, a band group of
Christians, played several concerts
open to everyone. At the close of
these concerts Crusade workers
were available to share with those
present who were not acquainted
personally with Jesus Christ.
All of the Bethel people ex-pressed
that they had experienced
a real time of renewal in their
own personal lives. As Dale Saxon,
Director of Christian Service,
pointed out, "We don't want this
Operation Sunshine experience to
become a "mountaintop experi-ence"
but instead we want it to
become a new plateau of living in
the Spirit.
by Rich Zaderaka
The Royals next track meet was
uncertain at this writing because
of the cancellation of the River
Falls meet, but earlier in the week,
Coach Gene Glader was trying to
line up a spot in the St. Olaf In-vitational
which hosts fifteen oth-er
schools.
During Easter break the Royal
cindermen competed in two meets
in Missouri and also in the South
Dakota Invitational.
Coach Glader summed up the
spring trip as follows: "The trip
was good not only because it was
fun, but also because a trip like
nat makes a team a team. Living
and traveling with each other for
a week helps an athlete really get
to know his team mates and helps
to create new friendships. We did-
Bethel Royal golfers go into ac-tion
April 13 against River Falls
University of Wisconsin. The Roy-als
have been practicing indoors
for about a month and outdoors
for one week and are looking for-ward
to getting into the outdoor
season at Como Park.
Last year the Royals were 4-2
in dual matches and also were in-volved
in two invitationals: they
place thirteenth out of 19 teams
at the Cougar Invitational and
ninth of 12 teams at the Beaver
Invitational. Just on the basis of
won-lost, the season was fairly
successful.
This season Bethel will have
eleven dual matches and be in-volved
in three tournaments. This
year they have entered the NALA
District 13 Tournament, which
Coach Maurice (Mo) Shields says
they "should have been in years
ago."
Coach Sheilds sees this year
primarily as a building year due
to the addition of some good golf
schools for better competition
continued from page 3
employees. "While the government
finds it possible and necessary to
allocate millions each week to Vi-etnam
, it finds itself unable to
consider a significant and mean-ingful
pay increase for these and
other government employees. The
spending for the war in Vietnam
intensifies the problem of infla-dollars
that are needed and deserv-ed
for domestic purposes," he
said.
Hawk stressed the economic fo-cus
of the April 15 rallies. He
said, "The current inflationary
spiral was set off by the escal-ation
of the war, which caused
defense spending to rise from $50
billion in 1965 to $80 billion in
1969. It is this spending that made
real wages, in terms of buying
power, decrease from 1965 to the
present. We hope to begin on
April 15th to make clear to the
American public that the economic
dislocation which punishes nearly
everyone will not subside until the
war is ended."
Marge Sklencar, a co-oordinator
of the Committee, is currently re-organizing
the Moratorium's of-fices
in Chicago and planning the
activities for that city on April 15.
She said, "The response to our
plans in the midwest is tremend-ous.
It shows that the middle Am-n't
get as much conditioning out
of this trip as we have in past
ones because of the poor weather
(one meet was cancelled.) But it
was good to visit other schools.
It's really worthwhile for athletic
teams to travel and be able to
share in worship services as we
did."
Bethel won the meet against
Southwest Baptist of Bolivar, Mis-souri
on the strength of three
firsts by Fred Swedberg and a
pair by Dave Pound. Swedberg
won the shot put, discus and jav-elin.
Pound won the 220 and 440.
Other firsts were captured by
Mark Anderson in the half mile,
John Zylstra in the pole vault,
Paul Youngquist in the two mile
and Dave Solfelt in the triple
coupled with the graduation of
Jerry Loomis and Dave Anderson
who had successful records dur-ing
their careers. Coach Shields
doesn't see anyone to replace them,
however he stated that he did
have "a good prospect in fresh-man
Rich Borncamp" who played
at Minnehaha Academy.
Captain Steve Peterson heads
the list of team members this
year and he is looking forward to
a good year after being the out-standing
Bethel medalist of last
year. Other top returners are
sophomore Dale Finch, expected to
be one of the top three golfers,
senior Murray Sitte, and possibly
Harley Hanson. Peterson and Sitte
are lettermen.
Rounding out the roster are Tom
Anderson, Bob Elliot, Boeucamp,
Dave Healy, Mark Pound, Jeff
Swanson and Doug Weberg. Mike
Forshier, a good golf prospect
could have been helpful but is in-eligible
because he transferred last
semester from Whitewater State,
Wisconsin.
erican or the silent American is
sick of high taxes and high prices.
He is making connection between
these problems and the war. The
silent are beginning to speak out."
Her statements were supported
by a survey of the organization's
nine regional offices showing a
sizeable array of activities in what
is generally considered "silent Am-erican
country." These ranged
from major rallies in Cleveland
and Chicago. to leafletting cam-paigns
in Denver, to canvassing
for votes on an unofficial refer-endum
in Madison, to a state-wide
rally in Little Rock.
David Mixner, the fourth co-coordinator
of the Moratorium,
scored the Nixon administration,
particularly its current Southeast
Asia policy. "At the very time
polls reveal a decline in support
for the Presiden's policies, the war
in Southeast Asia is expanding,"
jump. The mile relay quartet of
Craig Anderson, Rick Berggren,
Phil James and Dave Pound also
placed first.
The meet score was Bethel 79,
Southwest 65.
On March 31, Bethel placed sec-ond
in a triangular meet in Joplin,
Missouri. Dave Pound, Fred Swed-berg,
Pete Roemer and the mile
relay nabbed firsts. Seconds were
taken by Mark Anderson, Pound
and Swedberg. Dan Mogck had a
pair of seconds in the two hurdle
events.
In the USD Invitational Bethel
ranked thirteenth of sixteen en-tries.
Fred Swedberg placed fifth
in the javelin with a throw of 174
feet 7 1/2 inches for the only team
points.
"On paper were not as strong as
last year, but we've got a couple
of teams that we added to fill in
the holes," the coach said. The
team could use fan support also.
Shields said, "The crowds were
not so big last year that the course
couldn't hold a few more people."
He added, "With a few breaks and
a little luck we could have a good
season."
Golf Schedule
April 13 River Falls
April 14 Concordia (St. Paul)
April 18 Lea
April 20 Eau Claire
April 22 Lea
April 24 St. Paul Bible
April 28 St. Thomas
April 29 Stout State
May 1 Hamline
May 2 Cougar Invitational
May 6 River Falls
May 8 N..I.A. District
May 12 Concordia (St. Paul)
May 16 Beaver Invitational at
Bemidji
he said. He called Vietnamization
"a disguise for expansion of our
military involvement into Laos
and, perhaps, Cambodia." He also
remarked that he found present
United States conduct in Laos
"frighteningly reminiscent of the
beginnings of massive involvement
in Vietnam."
NSA sponsors
bargain booklet
Coming out in the students Post
Office Box this week is a S.O.B.
Booklet, Students Own Bargains,
which contains many items which
students can buy at a savings. The
venture is sponsored by NSA, the
National Student Association. Sum-mer
tours to Europe, magazines
(i.e. Playboy at $8.50 per year),
posters, cameras, and records are
a few of the bargains which stud-ents
can take advantage of.
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start against River Falls
Silent Americans speak;
connect war with taxes
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to 1973), the New Dorm will stand alone, a while longer, on
the Arden Hills Campus.
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Vol. XLV—No. 22 Bethel Col lege, St. Paul, Minnesota Fr iday, Apr il 10. 1970
1 "Pt*
C n t Elseth views main job
of president as motivating people
Elden Elseth, newly elected
president of Bethel's Student
Association.
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Elden Elseth, newly elected stu-dent
body president, views the
main emphasis of his job as people-orientation.
Says Elseth, "The big-gest
part of my job is to motivate
people to do things; to work with
people, to observe people."
Elseth is a transfer student and
has previously attended Covenant
Bible College in Canada and Whea-on
College. Minnesota is his home
state. He is a junior majoring in
English and possibly Christianity.
His future plans entail either go-ing
to law school and entering pol-itics
or going into the ministry.
He has been involved in inter-collegiate
debate and forensics and
served at student body vice-pres-ident
while at Covenant Bible Col-lege.
This year, at Bethel, he has
performed as a student senator.
Bethel has a more relaxed atmos-phere
than the other two colleges
he attended according to Elseth.
He feels that the closeness of
people at Bethel is one of its
strong points; this closeness is due
to the notion that we all have
Christianity in common.
"The weak points of Bethel are
problems of quality," Elseth stat-ed.
"We just aren't putting out in
some areas like we should be."
This was a reference to the need
for a beefed up athletic program,
more social activities, and more
cultural events.
"One of Bethel's basic problems
is financial," Elseth commented.
"This exists on an institutional as
well as individual level. Institu-tionally,
Elseth ventured that the
school had to increase its resources
in some way — most likely through
better public relations. "We need
to make the Baptist General Con-ference
aware that we deserve
more of their support," he stated.
"Or else, possibly we could build
up our endowment funds through
stock investment."
continued on page 3
Shupe structures Symposiums
to explore human rights issues
Today's seminar gives overview of ecology
The month of April will see an
increase in paracollege activities
on Bethel's campus. Each week,
with the exception of the week of
April 20-25, students will have the
opportunity to involve and inform
themselves on one of the contemp-orary
and controversial issues fac-ing
the American public.
Ecology has become a nationally
recognized problem. This after-noon
there will be a two hour
program in the Seminary Chapel
dealing with Ecology.
At 1:30, Dr. Donald Larson, pro-fessor
of linguistics and anthro-pology,
will be speaking on, the
ecological balance that is needed
around the globe. He believe:, that
the Christian should tend his God-given
environment in responsible
ways.
During the second hour (2:39-
3:30), films and (or) filmstrips will
be used to give another view of the
ecology problem.
No classes will be formally dis-missed
for the ecology seminar.
However, faculty members will be
sympathetic with those wishing
to attend.
Besides the issue of environ-ment,
the seminars will also deal
with Blacks — April 16,17; and
American Indians— April 30, May
1.
The idea for such a program was
the brainchild of former Student
Association Preident, Dave Shupe.
According to Shupe the issues with
which the three symposiums will
deal could be thought of under
the unifying topic of human rights.
"Environment is, after all, a hu-man
right," he stated.
Shupe said he conceived of the
idea after he had received notice
that he was to head the Domestic
Affairs section of the Evangelical
Student Congress sponsored by the
American Association of Evangel-ical
Students, which will be held
in Spring Arbor, Michigan, April
28th through May 2. "I thought
it might in some way help Bethel's
representatives to the Congress to
prepare."
After he had started working on
the project, however, Shupe said
he realized the wider scope it
could have and now gives three
main objectives for the project.
First, each symposium is de-signed
to deal with valid and pres-sing
issues facing Americans today
which the present curricular struc-
In the recent meeting of the
Board of Education, March 20-21
dates for relocation of the college
to the Arden Hills campus was
changed from 1971 to 1973.
In the past two meetings of the
Board of Education, there has been
serious examination of the dates
for relocation of the college to the
Sem Campus in Arden Hills. When
the New Campus Building pro-gram
was approved by the Baptist
General Conference ten years ago
in 1961, the date for relocation was
set for the centennial year, 1971.
By last year, however, with a
slowdown in launching the two
major fund drives the escalation
of building costs, high interest
rates and shrinkage of federal
loan funds, it became evident that
this goal would be impossible to
meet.
The board then examined the
possibility of "establishing an ac-ture
does not allow students or
faculty to examine adequately.
Secondly, Shupe said, "The ad-ministration
is really in favor of
the idea and hopes that if the pro-ject
is successful, that this para-college
approach can be a regular
occurence. From the student's
viewpoint, Shupe sees that it's
success could provide a method
for the "regular hitting of con-cerns.
If this year's project is
successful, future ventures in this
area may be impressive enough to
bring in other colleges."
The third objective of the pro-ject
is to help the academic at-mosphere
of the college. Shupe
stated that he hoped it could "aid
in breaking traditional curricular-extra
curricular and student —
professor barriers.
ademic beachhead" on the campus
by 1971 and phasing the college's
move to Arden Hills. However, the
problems of operating a split cam-pus
apeared so great that this
alternative did not seem to be a
wise option.
The only other alternative, then
seemed to be to reschedule the
date of relocation. At present it
is the wish of the board that the
relocation date be changed to
1973 and that the college make a
complete move at this time.
In light of student opinion and
experience gained from the New
Dorm, revisions in housing plans
will begin soon.
The meeting of the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference in June in San
Diego will determine the extent
to which Bethel will participate
in the capital funds drive of the
Conference.
Board reviews college relocation date
proposes postponement of move to 1973
Senate arranges peace fast participation;
meal refunds to aid relief work in Vietnam
Fasting . . .a way for Bethel
students to help bring peace in
Viet Nam.
Next week, April 13-15, the stu-dents
involved in the cafeteria
program will have a chance to get
involved in Bethel's Fast for Peace.
The Student Senate has made ar-rangements
with the cafeteria ser-vice
to allow those students inter-ested
in giving up meals to sign
up and give the money, normally
used for meals, to a peace project.
Once the student signs his name
to miss a meal, the name is cros-sed
off the list in the cafeteria. At
the end of the three days of fast-ing,
the names of the students who
missed meals, and the number of
meals missed are brought to the
business office, and the Senate will
get a refund for those meals. The
check is then sent to the designat-ed
peace project.
This year, the Senate has decided
to send the check to the Mennon-ite
Central Committee to be used
for relief work in Viet Nam. The
Mennonite Committee has a world-wide
ministery in more than thirty
over-seas countries. There are over
700 Christian volunteers involved
in this service in the midst of un-speakable
poverty and also in the
disease and ignorance in North
America.
The Mennonite Fellowship is
commited to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ as revealed in the Scrip-tures.
They believe their primary
allegiance to Christ and His king-dom
is to develope their witness
to the love of God, neighbor and
enemy throughout the world.
Since the students will be giv-ing
meals for peace in conjunction
with the national peace fast spon-sored
by the Viet Nam Moratorium,
the Senate felt it would be good to
send the money to a project who
would not only use the money for
peace, but to further the message
of Christ too.
The opportunity to help the
search for peace is within our
reach. The choice is our own.
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Ingrown attitudes
depict the college
Next week, Monday through Wednesday, students will be presented
with the opportunity of participating in a nation-wide fast for peace
sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. Instead of sending
the money collected to the general fund, however, we will be giving
the meal refunds to the Menonites for relief work in Vietnam.
The decision to participate was, in my opinion. a good move on
the part of the students of the college. I was proud of Bethel when the
senate passed the motion to sponsor the fast for those who were
willing to participate; though I was a little disappointed that we did
not decide to send our refunds to the general fund.
Discussion which occurred on the subject after the passing of
the bill, however, horrified me. There was under serious consideration
the possibility of changing the bill so that the funds we collected
would go to the Student Missionary Project. I have nothing against
student missionaries, but I was apalled at the ingrown attitudes of
students on this campus.
Bethel students seem to have the general attitude that they and
their causes are the only valid group wihin the sphere of the student
world. As a collect the campus is as bad as an ingrown toenail.
Citizens of the world today and Christians in particular and
students even more paticularly, need to develop a self concept that
includes something more than the world on their doorstep. We must
not be so hesitant to help other people carry out their good ideas. Just
because is wasn't our idea to begin with doesn't make it bad.
The biggest part of this problem is the indifference or ignorance
of what is happening in the world around us. God created the world
for domination by man, but we as Christians cannot dominate if
we are ignorant of what goes on in the world. As students our very
survival today depends upon what we know about the world. A good
place to start learning is with the symposiums presented on campus
this month.
. . . And you viewers from all 16 states will be able to
watch as we endeavor to explore this gas bog which,
during the 20th century—believe it or not—was actually
a populated area known as "Cal-if-ornia."
ebapet Pate5
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
College Press Service
Shupe analyzes Bethel objectivity,
gives evaluation for improvement
PERHAPS WE CAN COMPROMISE- T ENFORCE BUSSING- IF YOU PEOPLE
AGREE ?O SIT NINE EYCK!
Dean Virgil Olson will bring the
message on Monday. On Tuesday,
Bob Kraning, popular youth speak-er
on the West Coast and director
of teen activities at Forest Home
Christian Conference Center, will
speak. He will be on campus
throughout the day to interview
any who are interested in working
at Forest Home during the summer.
The campus pastor will bring
another portrait of Jesus from the
Gospel of Mark on Wednesday,
with NEW music. On Thursday
Eddie Thomas will give a concert-lecture.
The Friday speaker will be
announced at a later date.
by Dave Shupe, former
Student Association President
I would like to give my evalu-ation
of Bethel College, from my
viewpoint as a senior anthropology
major and (former) student body
president. Such an evaluation
might have two approaches: the
person — how Bethel has influ-enced
me — and an objective an-alysis
of the institution.
Personally, I am quite satisfied
with my time at Bethel. I have
gained a social awareness, an en-joyment
for learning, training in
analysis of problems, and a more
refined faith in the person of
Christ. I have certainly changed
in four years and am very grateful
for those (professors and friends)
who have contributed to my educa-tion.
Admittedly, there are times
when I speculate on what I should
have learned but did not, which
brings me to the second approach,
the analysis of the three principal
aspects of the institution.
(Qualifications to my analysis:
1) I realize that Bethel's negative
aspects are more easily seen from
my present viewpoint — emphasis
on the positive aspects requiring
time, distance, and a selective
memory — though this does not
invalidate my present view of
Bethel's problems, and 2) that if
I compare Bethel to an ideal rath-er
than to institutions with more
problems and less freedom I mere-ly
reflect my hope for improve-ment.)
Social aspect: Perhaps it is a
misconception to think that at one
time in the near past, one could
easily predict some characteris-tics
of a Bethel student, but cer-tainly
the student body is not now
as homogeneous as it has been pre-viously.
However, there still seems
to be a current image (both pub-lic
image and self-image) of the
"representative" Bethel students.
But such an image is false. With
the exception of a spiritual com-mitment,
there is no characteristic
commen to (even) a majority of
Bethel students. One does not need
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to consider just the "extremes" to
see our social diversity, though
this diversity is not in principle
accepted. The unaccepted diversity,
coupled with an assumed but false
central image, perhaps can account
for the fragmentation of social
life, the occasional polarization of
attitudes and the lack of school
spirit found at Bethel. That is, the
image, though false (non-existent),
still has influence and keeps us
from treating each other with the
"unconditional positive regard"
that we need to accept each other
in our diversity. (The Bethel melt-ing
pot is not providing for cult-ural
pluralism.
Spiritual aspect: Often the term
is not used in a social meaning,
but a spiritual one, assuming that
there is a central characteristic
for the institution's spiritual envi-ronment.
But the emphasis —
pietism, the integration of faith
and knowledge, social concern, doc-trinal
correctness — are charac-teristic
only of segments of the
college community. Do we again
have a false central image of a
"typical evangelical Christian" —
(the evangelical tradition expect-ing
doctrinal consensus)? If our
center be the person of Jesus
Christ, the Incarnation, our em-phasis
lacks a sense of vitality or
"celebration". (Perhaps this ex-plains
the seeming consensus that
chapel is presently quite uninter-esting.)
But, again the diversity is
repressed by the false image.
Academic aspect: The model of
unaccepted diversity around an
assumed but false norm is partic-ularly
applicable to the academic
life of Bethel. Like nearly all
other educational institutions, we
have an educational philosophy
and system wherein the natural
students are compared to a norm,
through the grading system (and
through that, to each other) and
are thereby forced to fit their be-havior
to that norm (the average
student). Everyone goes as far as,
but no further than the teacher.
On the contrary, I believe ed-ucation
to be essentially non-
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competitive and non-comparative.
Such a non-competitive atmos-phere
would grant to the student
a type of academic freedom which
he presently does not have, would
both students and disciplines, and
would perhaps encourage a new
sense of academic vitality.
I see, however, a basic lack of
trust in the student by the facul-ty
in their classes, and by the ad-ministration
in student govern-ment.
Rarely are we expected to
graple with concepts that force
our intellectual boundries to their
limits. It is not the difficulty of
the material which causes failure
in college, but the presure of the
pedagogy. The successful can
stretch to fit the Procrustean
system, they master the pedagogy,
not necessarily the material. (One
"learns how to study, and how to
take a test".) Too often this re-sults
in a non-functional educat-ion,
which limits our ability to
penetrate our society, particular-ly
the society of our future.
In each area then, the model
seems to explain the phenomena.
We have an unaccepted diversity
(differences in social attitudes,
spiritual emphasis, and academic
interests and abilities) around an
assumed but false central image
(the typical Bethelite, Christian,
and student), the latter, neverthe-less,
harmfully influencing the
former.
If the model is true to the data,
the solution to many of our prob-lems
would be in 1)identifying a
true, rather than a false, concept
around which we move, and in
doing that, 2) accepting the prin-ciple
of diversity (cultural plural-ism).
Socially, we would continue
to attempt to lower the barriers
we have set between us. Spirit-ually,
we would encourage the
expressions of faith (in chapel) of
all types of Christian students.
Academically, we would commit
ourselves to a curriculum change
radical enough to change not only
our techniques and structure, but
our entire philosophy of educa-tion.
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The Vietnam Moratorium Com-ments
of a Peace Fast on April
13-15 which will be largely focus-ed
on college and university cam-puses.
The endorsements include
more than 212 student body pres-idents
and campus newspaper ed-itors
along with prominent Amer-icans,
such as Julian Bond, Ram-sey
Clark, Jane Fonda, Rabbi Ab-raham
J. Heschel, Senator Harold
Hughes, Mayor John Lindsay, and
Senator Eugene McCarthy.
David Hawk, a co-oordinator of
the Vietnam Moratorium Commit-tee,
explained the purpose of the
Fast: "We will fast for peace dur-ing
April 13-15 for two reasons.
The first is to demonstrate our
moral opposition to the continuing
and expanding war. The second
reason is directly related to the
April 15th Tax Payer Rallies.
Because the government spends
$201 million a day on war and the
weapons of war, we are asking
people not to eat for three days
and to send the money saved while
not eating to aid the victims of the
war. Proceeds from the Peace Fast
Fund will go to the American
Friends Service Committee Viet
nam Relief Program, the National
Welfare Rights Organization, and
the United Farm Workers of Amer-ica.
The Fast represents our com-mitment
to improve the quality
of our common life and to allev-iate
human suffering." Hawk in-dicated
that the Fast will focus on
campuses and among groups of
religious people. He explained that
many students are making arrang-ements
with university food serv-ices
to turn over money saved by
not eating to the Moratorium for
distribution to the Vietnam relief
agency and poverty groups. He also
mentioned that fasting students
in some places intended to come
to dining halls at meal time to
dramatize the Fast.
The Moratorium is also organ-izing
the Tax Payer Rallies on
April 15 in more than 30 cities
across the nation. Sam Brown, a
co-oordinator of the committee
discussed the Committee's plans:
"On April 15th across the coun-try,
people will once again halt
`business as usual' to speak to
their countrymen and to their
President. They will talk about
Vietnam, about the broadening
and about the economic crisis
brought about by the spending for
the war and the Pentagon."
Brown underscored the primary
focus of the activities in a dis-cussion
of the strike of postal
continued on page 6
continued from page 1
On an individual level, Elseth
observed that he didn't think that
Bethel should expect students to
pay such high costs. He did not
mention any specific proposals or
plans for lowering student costs.
Bethel should try to completely
move out to the new campus as
soon as possible, Elseth felt. Delay
only means increased costs — a-bout
a million extra a year. He
noted that the quality of construc-tion
in the New Dorm was basic-ally
poor. As far as New Campus
housing in general, Elseth stated
that students should not have to
live in campus housing if they
didn't want to. The administration
should consult students in New
Campus planning instead of erect-ing
buildings that are unsuited to
student needs. Elseth offered no
plans as to how students could
have an effective, active voice in
determining the kind of dwelling
that they and hopefully future stu-dents
will be living in.
Elseth supports recruiting min-ority
students for Bethel's campus.
"We shouldn't do it just so we can
smugly say we have minority stu-dents.
We can contribute to each
other as people. Education means
diversity, different types of people,
different backgrounds." He had not
Friday, April 10. 1970
as yet drawn up plans or devel-oped
a strategy as to how students
could encourage the administra-tion
and insure minority group
recruitment.
"Interim was a good thing. I
liked the flexibility of courses and
the relaxed atmosphere." Elseth
stated in reference to educational
reform. "I have an intense hatred
for grades. Students should have
something to motivate them be-sides
grades. We should learn be-cause
we want to learn. Education
should not be a competitive effort,
but a co-operative effort."
Elseth would like to see stu-dents
help structure their own
courses. "We're paying for our ed-ucation,"
he said. "We should get
something in the classroom rele-vant
to what we want to learn."
Better transportation services—
such as to athletic events and air-ports;
student involvement in off-campus
activities, and increased
social activities on campus are the
goals that Elseth has set for stu-dent
government next year. "Beth-el
doesn't get any big name groups
at all," Elseth stated. "We could
provide some kind of cultural ser-ies
that would appeal to everyone's
taste and include anything from a
symphony to rock music."
The campus co-ordinator, a pos-ition
newly created by the Sen-ate
this year, is in charge of co-ordinating
all the social and cult-ural
events on campus. He also re-ceives
$1,300 per year. The co-ordinator
is appointed by Elseth
and approved by the Senate. Elseth
plans to work closely with the
campus co-ordinator.
Elseth views a main part of his
job as student association presi-dent
as working with student-facul-ty
committees and improving stu-dent-
faculty relations on campus.
When asked how he would accom-plish
this, Elseth replied that he
didn't think it was something that
could be structured.
At present, Elseth has no plans
for giving a state of the association
address giving his view of where
Bethel's students are at now, what
goals he would like to see the stu-dent
association accomplish, and
how to get from where we are to
where we should be. as was done
last year by former student associ-ation
president Dave Shupe.
When reflecting on how he
thought being student association
president would affect him per-sonally,
Elseth stated, "I really
don't know how it will affect me.
It will probably make me more a-ware
of the things that are going
on at Bethel."
Moratorium Committee
sponsors college peace fast Elden Elseth feels weak points of
to clemonstrate against war Bethel are problems of equality
New dorm is the good, bad, and the ugly
One of the New Dorm's assets is its quite, park- New Dorm lounge areas combine both "the good" Seams in hallway carpeting are beginning to
like setting. and "the bad" with a place for all residents to meet, separate.
and . . . interact . . . with each other.
by Dave Greener
THE GOOD
It is located in Arden's Hills,
three and one-half miles beyond
"The Last Frontier." It is situated
by hills and trees, a tiny creek
and a nearby lake. It is known as
New Dorm and it is the beginning
of a new Bethel.
The 120 residents ride the bus
between the two campuses to-gether.
They have socials and open
houses. They might see each other
more often than if they lived in
separate dorms. "It's like our own
little family out here," says one
female resident and another feels
that in this co-ed dorm there is
"a sense of unity" and a "bond."
A co-ed dorm such as New Dorm
can expand social horizons. "It
provides easy access to interac-tion,"
says one male resident, "if
you want it." Another guy likes
the idea of getting to know other
kids and feels its easier to meet
girls because its co-ed. One girl
believes that with this co-ed dorm
she gets to know guys in a brother-ly
sense, instead of as dating or
marriage partners."
But besides the people who live
in the dorm, there is the dorm it-self
and its surroundings.
"I can't believe how quiet it is
out here," says one girl resident.
"The facilities of the building are
really good," says a male resident.
Perhaps most significant of these
would be the three levels of loung-es
separating the two wings. There
are also two "recreation" rooms
that include kitchen and laundry
facilities as well as a television
and a ping pong table.
Resident's rooms are carpeted
and at least one co-ed likes the size
of her room, the big closet, the
mirror, the bulletin board. Other
people enjoy suite living. There are
study rooms on four of the wing-floors.
Some students appreciate New
Dorm's location and atmosphere.
One guy terms it a "park-like set-ting,"
another finds it "nice being
removed in the country." For some
the daily return to the dorm may
be a change of pace and place from
the other campus.
THE BAD
But not all at the New Dorm is
"roses." Among other things, there
is no food service, the parking lot
is not paved or lighted and the
recreation rooms have been lacking
in suitable furniture. Futhermore,
bus service is sometimes a prob-lem.
Currently New Dorm students
eat meals on the main campus. If
they are through with classes in
mid-afternoon, for example, they
must stay and wait for supper or
if they go back to the dorm, they
must make an extra trip.
Food service in the new semi-nary
dining hall had been hoped
for this year and had even been
promised, through departmental
slip-up, to start last March 1. It
was discovered, however, that
health regulations would necessi-tate
using a sanitized van for trans-portation
of food from the old
campus. This "monkey wrench" at
least brought about such compen-sations
as another bus run at sup-per
and a few more "special meals"
at the dorm (the rules permit oc-casional,
not regular, food trans-port
with the present vehicles).
But New Campus food service (at
least for suppers—an arrangement
might be made for lunch) will come
only in an uncertain future.
Another "problem" matter is
the parking lot. Unpaved, it is in
a temporary location. Unpaved it
has sand, dirt, and clay that gets
wet during snow-melting and rain-fall.
This can get onto people's
shoes and tracked onto the carpet-ing
in the dorm. Futhermore, the
parking lot is unlighted—a light
might be a deterrent to burglary.
Another item is the lack of "com-fortable"
furniture in the "recrea-tion"
rooms. When first designed,
their function was unclear. Most
of the furnished chairs were and
are comparatively uncomforaoble.
Residents await something better
and in the meantime are even buy-ing
some used furniture to com-pensate.
(It might be noted that
while the furniture in the lounge
area may be more comfortable, it
is not always sturdy.)
It is things like the parking lot
and the furniture situation that
give rise to the idea, as expressed
by one resident, that the adminis-tration
treats things at the New
Dorm as temporary, "they never
want to do anything out here."
For their part, the administration
would question the value of
spending a few thousand dollars
for surfacing a parking lot that
will be moved, and $800 to $1000
for the lighting. As for furniture,
thus far they have apparently fol-lowed
other priorities.
In general, various programs
have been planned (such as the
commons area that was hopefully
to have been built onto the dorm
this year), but as Dean Muck points
out, the phrase "when funds are
available" accompanies them. Mo-ney
then is a problem for everyone.
Bus service is sometimes another
"problem." The chief faults have
been when buses sometimes are
late or don't run at all. For his
part, Tom Molin, student bus ad-ministrator,
has shown a willing-ness
to be flexible on scheduling.
THE UGLY
Don Rainbow woke up early that
morning and so did others. The
house parent's first drowsy reac-tion
to that brief, yelling-running
raid by Edgrenites last month was
that the New Dorm was collapsing
and people were trying to get out.
On the other side of the dorm
from Mr. and Mrs. Rainbow lives
housemother Mom Sargent. While
in their apartment, she and her
daughter can sometimes hear tiles
falling off the walls of their bath-room.
Students first moved into the
New Dorm less than two years ago
and construction problems have
been in evidence to them and
others ever since.
The stairs are wooden, a person
can tell that by simply walking
down them (as one student per-haps
somewhat exaggeratingly
phrased it, "When you come down
the stairs, you think you're going
to fall through."
The wooden floors are not al-ways
level—warping has occurred.
The dorm is carpeted but the car-continued
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U.S. cited most overpopulated
New Dorm's economical construction in Kentucky Prof's comparison
`more money to be spent in repairs' wit.k India's ability to support life
continued from page 3
peting is wearing (on the stairs)
and the seams are beginning to
disconnect in some hall areas.
Several floor tiles have come up
in the boy's washroom (they have
now been glued back) and three
doorstops have been pushed
through walls (why not? They
lacked adequate backing.) Foot-long
cracks long ago appeared on
some walls when the building be-gan
to settle and there have been
instances of localized over-heating
and one case where condensation
from a pipe caused water to ap-pear
on the floor of a carpeted
room.
Why did these problems ever
arise? Answers can be found in the
by Anne Dalton
People, power, pollution and
natural resources are the topics
that will be dealt with at the 24th
Regional Meeting of the North
Central Section of the American
Scientific Affiliation. The meeting
will be held Saturday, April 11 at
the Arden Hills Campus of Bethel
Theological Seminary.
The conference is entitled, The
Tragedy of the Commons, or
Christian Responsibility and The
Enviromental Crisis. Dr. Donald
Larson of Bethel's Social Science
Department will introduce the ses-sion
by reviewing Garrett Hardin's
paper entitled "The Tragedy of
the Commons", which was pub-lished
in 1968 in Science. This
will provide a background for all
the discussion groups.
Following the introduction a
Symposium will be held with a
member of each discussion group
giving a brief 10 minute presenta-tion.
Dealing with the topic of
People will be Dr. V. Elving An-derson
of the University of Min-nesota.
Dr. Kenneth Whitby, also
of the University, will concern him-self
with Power. Floyd Forsberg
of the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency and Russell Johnson of
Bethel College will deal with Pol-lution
and Natural Resources.
Following the Symposium the
participants will break into small
groups for discussion. The basis of
discussion in each group will be
man's lack of knowledge concern-ing
his own contribution to the
problems of overpopulation, pollu-tion
and the depletion of natural
resources. Man therefore turns to
outward sources for solutions to
his problems rather than looking
to himself.
history of the dorm.
The dorm was the gift of an
anonymous donor who stipulated,
among other things, that it be con-structed
by the end of 1968 and
that it contain space for 120 stu-dents.
The offer, of course, was
unanticipated. Bethel had plan-ned
on constructing some of the
academic complexes first.
The gift was accepted. Original
architect plans had to be drawn.
Because of the time factor, plan-ning
could not be lengthly. Even
with the gift of $500,000 finances
were limited (besides the stipula-tions
of the donor, the costs of
excavations and bringing in a gas
and water source were of course
incurred) and Bethel, at the time
could not add much to them. More-
Each one of the discussion
groups will focus attention on one
of the four areas presented in the
Symposium. The resource people
in each group will include 1) the
group discussion leader 2) a spec-ialist
(the Symposium speakers) 3)
a pastor or theologian 4) a grad-uate
student. All of these have
given some previous attention to
the subject matter.
The groups are entitled:
Group I—"People" — The Pop-ulation
Crisis and Po-tential
World Starva-tion.
Leader: Robert
Bohon, Senior Chemist,
3M Company, St. Paul
Group II—"Power" — Electrical
Power Generation and
Ecological Balanc e.
Leader: Robert Carl-son,
Department of
Physical Sciences, Be-thel
College
Group III—"Pollution" — An Ef-fluent
Society, t h e
High Price of Technol-ogical
Progress. Lead-er:
Oscar M. Lund. De-partment
of Agricul-ture,
Economics, Univ-ersity
of Minnesota
Group IV—"Natural Resources"—
Preservation or Deple-tion
of Natural En-dowments.
Leader:
James Nordstrom, De-partment
of Animal
Science, University of
Minnesota
Following the discussion groups
the entire body will reconvene and
each group leader will present a
brief summary of his group's dis-cussion.
The cost of the day is $1.00 ($.50
over, the dorm was a pilot pro-gram;
also, within the budget
there was some experimentation.
The New Dorm was built, ergo
almost had to be built, economi-cally.
And the results were eco-nomical.
As one resident comment-ed
"It was rather tragic that it
was put together in such a poor
manner . . " and went on to point
out that more money will be spent
in the present structure plus re-pairs
than a more adequately con-structed
original building.
At least, perhaps, things can be
learned from the pilot project.
Glen Hayne, Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds, is well
aware of construction problems and
they are being considered in the
planning of the new campus.
and one half carpet on stair-worn.
for students) which covers the cost
of arrangements and publicity.
The schedule of the day is:
12:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome and Invocation
1:10 Introduction by Dr. Larson
1:30 Symposium
2:30 Small Group Discussion
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Panel — Discussion Sum-maries
and Conclusions
4:30 Business Meeting
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Affiliation, Inc. is an organiz-ation
of evangelical Christians who
are trained in biological, physical,
and social sciences. Their purpose
is to study the relationship be-tween
science and Christianity.
Students and faculty with ques-tions
or desiring more information
should see Dr. Don Larson, Robert
Carlson, Russell Johnson or Dr.
Arthur Lewis.
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by Wayne H. Davis, Professor
of biology, University of
Kentucky
(CPS) — The Uuited States is
the most seriously overpopulated
nation in the world today. I define
as most seriously overpopulated
that nation whose people by virtue
of their numbers and activities
are most rapidly decreasing the
ability of the land to support hu-man
life.
Compare the U.S. to India, for
example. We have 203 million
people and they have 540 million
on much less land. But let's look
at the impact of people on the
land.
The average Indian eats a few
cups of rice a day, draws a bucket
of water from the communal well
and sleeps in a mud hut. In his
daily rounds to gather dried cow
dung to cook his rice he has a
rather small impact on his environ-ment.
He does not clamor for
highways. jet-ports, and steel mils.
An American on the other hand.
will destroy a piece of land on
which he will build a house, gar-age
and driveway. His employer
will destroy a piece of land to
provide him a parking space as
will the developer of his shopping
center. The government will pro-vide
a road to his house and a
piece of ground on which to dump
his daily eight pounds of garbage.
With 38 times the per capita
GNP of the Indian, our citizen's
demand for the latest fashion
will cause cotton farmers to kill
the southern streams with endrin,
his demand for power will cause
the miners to kill streams with silt
and acids and his (manufacturer-induced)
demand for steel to re-place
last year's auto will cause
U.S. Steel Corp. to kill the Great
Lakes by increasing the daily e-quivalent
of 130,000 junked autos
Life says it dumps into Lake Mich-igan.
And in hundreds of ways he
will contribute to the pollution of
our oceans causing the final death
of our fisheries which the Com-mercial
Fisheries Review for Oct-ober,
1969, described as a "nation-al
problem" and a trend which has
"become precipitous in the past
seven years."
To supply him with his 26,000,000
gallons of water to pollute in his
life-time, we will build a reservoir
and flood the farmland. He will
contribute his share to the annual
142 million tons of smoke and
fumes which killed the spinach in-dustry
in southern California, are
killing forest trees and decreasing
the amount of sunlight reaching
our land. He will contribute his
share to the annual load of seven
million junked cars, 20 million tons
of paper, 48 billion cans, 26 bil-lion
bottles, and a rapidly increas-ing
number of plastic Chlorox and
antifreeze containers our environ-ment
is expeceted to absorb each
year. He will poison the land with
the lead, nickel and boron from the
21,000 gallons of gasoline he will
use in his lifetime.
He wil eat 10,000 pounds of meat.
To supply this demand. cattle will
eat plants on western range land
and the nutrient minerals are pas-sed
to our friend who flushes them
down the toilet and into the ocean.
This life pattern, unknown in the
erosion and lowering of the water
table by pumping out ground water
for irrigation and city and indust-rial
use, to hasten the destruction
of our land's capacity to support
people.
Because the American is far
more destructive of his land than
citizens of other overpopulated
lands are to theirs, I want to in-troduce
a new term which I sug-gest
be used in all future discus-sions
of problems of human pop-ulations
and ecology. We should
speak of our numbers in "Indian
equivalents" or IE. An IE I define
as the average number of Indian
citizens required to have the same
detrimental effect on the land's
ability to support human life as
would the average American. This
value is hard to determine. I take
a conservative working estimate
of 25. My Indian friends say this
is much too low. One person sug-gested
to me 500 as more realistic.
But let's use 25 as our IE.
In terms of IE, then, the popu-lation
of the U.S. is over four bil-lion.
And the rate of growth is
even more alarming. We have by
far the most serious population
growth problem in the world. We
are growing at one percent per
year. a rate which would double
our numbers in 70 years. India is
growing at 2.5 percent. Using the
IE of 25, our growth rate would be
10 times as serious as India's if
our people had their life expect-ancy
of 35 years. With our ex-pectancy
of 70 years, our growth
problem becomes 20 times as ser-ious.
But this cannot be true you say.
I am playing with statistics. You
are right. I am assuming 70 years
life for today's baby at today's
level of affluence, and such an
assumption is absurd. If we con-tinue
population growth or rape
of the resources, or both, IE will
drop so drastically that by the
year 2000 we may think the aver-age
Indian is fortunate.
So we should not worry about
the hungry nations. The tragedy
facing the U.S. is greater and more
imminent than theirs. India will
be there after the U.S. is gone.
She will have colossal famines, but
the land will survive and she will
come back as she always has be-fore.
Our citizens vary tremendously
in IE. If we plot IE vs. its recip-rocal
(the percentage of land sur-viving
a generation), we obtain a
linear regression. Now if we place
occupation types on this graph we
would find the starving Blacks of
Mississippi on one end. They would
approach unity in IE and would be
least destructive to the land. At
the other end of the graph would
be the politicians slicing pork for
the barrel, highway contractors,
real estate developers and public
enemy number one — the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
So, blessed be the starving Blacks
of Mississippi with their outdoor
privies, for they are ecologically
sound, and they shall inherit the
nation. Young people who are
working with these folks in hopes
of saving the nation are working
on the wrong end of the graph.
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Everyone must learn to be submissive to elders, laws, and the majori-ty
rule. This is the natural order of life until the harmony is broken by
an overload of power which leads to injustice and rebellion.
Likewise most of the material dispensed at Bethel is digested quietly
due to our former training in the submissive field. But something has
burdened the otherwise well proportioned system and has promoted re-bellion.
To make myself clear I will simply say that the administration
has taken advantage of the respectable students and imposed on him a
tuitional load for exceeding a just capacity!
The reason for the shift of weight lies in the student body as a func-tional
force. The Christian students were well trained in the art of lying
down to people of higher rank since it is a Christian virtue to be a peace-maker.
But what most fail to see is the sin of fogging the students to
steal their money.
To solve the problem someone mentioned the balance of operating
cost between the college and Seminary but no movements have been
made. The campaigns used it to win moves to become another cog in
our useless government. Time is spent in the senate rolling censored
bills up blocked alleys. So things must be done outside of senate and
include all sensible students.
We pay less per year than Macalester students by 350 dollars and
less than Hamline students by about the same, yet our facilities fall so
short that a comparison is impossible.
One excuse that we are given is that we have a college coming up
out somewhere in Arden Hills. As long as I lived there I only saw barren
hills and a lot of frustrated dreams. This procrastination of the truth can
no longer be accepted and we students must move now. We must talk
among each other. We must back our student leaders with our personal
views, talk with the administration and ask them who we pay and sup-port
and why.
Students must come to the realization that this is our school not
the president's or the Dean's or our daddy's but ours. We pay, we learn
and I hope we unite.
Friday, April 10. 1970
The Black Symposium held at
Bethel next week will approach
the concept of blackness from a
personal and cultural viewpoint.
Jerry Jenfa, a junior from Ni-geria,
will be the featured speak-er
next Wed., April 15 in chapel.
He will talk on his feelings and
attitudes towards Bethel and how
he relates to Bethel.
Edward Thomas, former Bethel
music professor and resident art-ist,
speaks next Thursday in chap-
Edward Thomas, Bethel Music Professor (on Sabbatical this
year) and resident artist, will be speaking in Chapel on Thurs-day
and will be giving a recital Thursday evening at 8.
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Guy Wuellner
to give piano
recital tonight
Mr. Guy Wuellner, concert pian-ist
and professor of piano at Drake
Univerity, will present a recital at
Bethel College on Friday evening,
April 10 at 8 p.m. This is Wuell-ner's
second appearance as a re-citalist
at Bethel Colllege.
Guy Wuellner has participated
in the Master classes of Paul Ba-dura-
Skoda, Jorg Demus, and Al-fred
Brendal at the Internationales
Kulturzentrum in Vienna, and in
Master classes at Fontainebleau in
France under Rafeal Pupana and
Robert Casadesus.
In addition to the evening re-cital,
Wuellner will be teaching a
piano workshop at 12:30 to 2:30.
Both the workshop and the re-cital
will be held in the fieldhouse.
There will be no admission charge
for either the workshop or the
recital.
el. He will explain what's happen-ing
in relation to blacks and clas-sical
music; more specifically a-bout
the organization of which he
is executive director, the AAMOA
(Afro-American Music Opportun-ities
Association, Inc.)
That evening at 8, Ed Thomas
and Mr. John Patton will present
a lecture-recital on the history of
Black music covering everything
from classical to jazz music.
Thomas, Jenfa share in
black symposium here
j-Sooti
Planetary generation gap will force cultural change
by Marjorie M. Rusche
Margaret Mead, a noted anthro-pologist
and dubbed a "dirty old
women" by a hostile U.S. Senator,
has recently (copyright 1970) auth-ored
a book, Culture and Commit-ment,
which is a study of the
generation gap that is "right on".
There has always been conflict
between generations. However,
Mead maintains that the scope of
today's generation gap is world-wide.
She uses three models of
inter-generational behavior to clar-ify
her analysis. These are post-figurative,
cofigurative, and pre-figurative
cultures.
Postfigurative cultures Mead i-dentifies
as those where children
learn appropriate behavior from
their forebears (parents or grand-parents).
"Change is so slow and
imperceptible that grandparents,
holding newborn grandchildren in
their arms, cannot conceive of
any other future for the children
than their own past lives. The
past of the adults is the future of
each new generation; their lives
provide the ground plan. The chil-dren's
future is shaped in such a
way that what has come after child-hood
for their forebears is what
they, too, will experience after
they are grown." Thus, there is no
break between the experience of
the old and the experience of the
young. Postfigurative cultures ex-isted
up to the beginning of civ-ilization.
In cofigurative cultures the in-dividual's
behavior is modeled af-ter
that of his peers. Elders still
maintain authority, but it is mod-ified
by peer group pressure.
"Where cofiguration among age
mates has become institutionalized
throughout the culture, one finds
the phenomenon of youth culture
or "teen-age" culture; age strat-ification,
encouraged by the school
system, becomes increasingly im-portant."
This model became prevalent in
the U.S. around the beginning of
the 20th century. The model —
which Mead feels is currently the
model for behavior on an inter-national
scale — also exists where
ethnic groups are forced to move
into different cultures for various
reasons and lose their sense of
continuity; or where the state ac-quires
and institutionally delegates
former parental authority (in post-figurative
cultures) for the child's
socialization. (Schools are one ex-ample.)
Just as the old postfigurative
cultures broke down and reformed
as cofigurative ones due to tech-nological
advance and increased
complexity of society; Mead feels
the present cofigurative culture
pattern is disintegrating and a new
model is taking shape — prefig-uration.
In prefigurative cultures, the
youth reject the older generation's
life style or behavior models and
create their own based on their
unique experience. "Even very re-cently
the elders could say: You
know, I have been young and you
have never been old. But today's
youth can reply: You never have
been young in the world I am
young in, and you never can be."
The elders, then, ideally look to
the generation of youth for guide-lines
to behavior; for the youth
are more experienced and know-ledgeable
about what is going on
at the current time.
Mead feels that today's inter-nationally
dissident and activist
youth are leading into the pre-figurative
culture form. What con-ditions
have brought about an in-ternational
youth revolt? Today
there is a world community with
shared knowledge, change, and in-stant
communication. The world
keeps on getting smaller through
world-wide travel and communica-tion.
Today's youth are more aware
of world-wide problems and pos-sibilities.
We are still reaping results of
the scientific revolution that start-ed
in the 19th century; such as
computers, increased development
of food resources so that it is
now technically (but apparently
not politically) possible for every-one
on this planet to have a satis-fying
life in material terms.
"Youth live in a world in which
events are presented to them in all
their complex immediacy; they are
no longer bound by the simplified
linear sequences dictated by the
printed word. In their eyes the
killing of an enemy is not quali-tatively
different from the murder
of a neighbor. They cannot recon-cile
our efforts to save our own
children by every known means
with our readiness to detroy the
children of others with napalm.
Old distinctions between peace-time
and wartime, friend and foe,
"my" group and "theirs" — the
outsiders, the aliens — have lost
their meaning. They know that the
people of one nation alone cannot
save their own children; each holds
the responsibility for the others'
children."
"Today, all the people of the
world are part of one electronic-ally
based, intercommunicating
network, young people everywhere
share a kind of experience that
none of the elders ever have had
or will have. Conversely, the older
generation will never see repeated
in the lives of young people their
own unprecedented experience of
sequentially emerging change.
This break between generations is
wholly new: it is planetary and
universal."
Mead feels that children today
face a future that is so deeply un-known
(unlike the assumed pre-dictability
of conditions under the
postfigurative and cofigurative mo-dels)
that the new prefigurative
model is needed.
Adults have to realilze that they
cannot use the values and experi-ence
of their own youth to under-stand
the youth of today. "We
must create new models for adults
who can teach their children not
what to learn, but how to learn;
and not what they should be corn-mitted
to, but the value of com-mitment."
What is necessary be-tween
the generations is co-opera
tion, not coercion.
Culture and commitment. What
is needed to bridge the generation
gap is a culture that both gener-ations
can honestly be committed
to. But this cannot happen when
two fundamentally different value
systems and philosophical prem-ises
underlie the two cultures. So
we currently have such symbolic
incidents as Abbie Hoffman's wife,
Anita, retreating with Abbie from
the courtroom shouting to Judge
Julius Hoffman, "We'll dance on
your grave!"
Whatever you think of today's
youth, the generation gap, anthro-pologists,
or dirty old women who
try smoking marijuana, Margaret
Mead's latest book offers one of
those things called a "viable al-ternative"
for the nitty gritty prob-lem
of alienation between the gen-erations.
Culture and Commitment
is engaging and intriguing read-ing.
It's well worth taking time
to read the book.
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Page 6 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970
The Column
by Tim Weko
I sure hated to see Easter vacation come to an end, especially now
that the weather is finally starting to come around. But look at it this
way—there are only about 15 Monday-Wednesday-Friday's left. The kite
fliers and the guys and girls dotting the lawn to catch the sunshine indi-cate
spring fever in its worst form. This is when everyone starts cutting
classes in order to prepare his body for the summer tanning season.
What this all means, though, is that in a week or so we should start
hearing rumors about some upcoming inter-dorm water fight and/or
panty raid, for the not-too sophisticated. Last one in is a "dirty rotten
egg."
This also seems to be the time of year for playoffs of one sort or
another. The NBA (National Basketball Association, for the unenlight-ened)
is currently involved in its semifinal round. Of course the Mil-waukee
Bucks will win it all, I hope. Also the National Hockey League has
begun its Stanley Cup tournament, and Minnesota's own North Stars are
involved by virtue of a 3rd place finish in its division.
If anyone is wondering about the strength of the Western division
let it suffice to say that it can't be too tough if the North Stars could
lose about 50 games in a row this winter and still finish third. The Eastern
division playoffs will probably decide this year's Stanley Cup champion
since all the East will have to do is show up to beat the Western repre-sentative.
Bethel also has a number of playoffs starting now too. These are
the intramural battles including wrestling, coed doubles badminton,
various forms of handball. and pingpong. Although intramural teams
still collect points for the over all championship from these matches,
these are the more individual of Bet1-.e1 intramurals.
So far the most interesting event seems to be in the heavyweight
division where Dr. James Rodgers reigns unchallenged. It would prove
quite interesting to watch Rodgers wrestle, particularly after watching
and listening to him during the now finished intramural basketball sea-son.
So far Rodgers has no challengers and if this continues he should be
able to win by forfeit without too much difficulty.
The baseball team, at least a major part of it, stayed here during the
vacation and practiced in the fieldhouse. Things were going real well,
and the players seem to be optimistic about the season's prospects. Mean-while,
the track team was down in Missouri for it's annual Easter track
trip. It was termed successful by a number of people. Good luck to both
teams.
Ladies' basketball team
ends successful season
Cindermen meet St. Olaf
after Missouri S. Dakota
Bethel women wrapped up a
winning season in pre-Easter play
against Eau Claire State University
with a 50-46 win. Their record
stands at 6 wins and 4 losses.
Bethel scored 406 points to their
opponents' 391.
The team also participated in
a basketball tourney at the Univ-ersity
of Minnesota where they
pulled through with a 2-1 recard.
By far the most exciting game of
the tourney was the game with the
University's "B" team. Barb Elliot
won the game for Bethel when she
A group of 45 Bethel students
were greeted by sun and sand, sea
and surf and 100,000 fellow col-legians
as they arrived on the
famed Daytona Beach, Florida.
The group left the Bethel cam-pus
on Friday, March 27, in a car-avan
of five cars, picked up anoth-er
earful in Chicago and met the
remaining three carsful in Florida
on Saturday evening.
As the Bethelites checked in at
Daytona they became a part of
approximately 2,000 other students
participating in a plan called
"Operation Sunshine." This group
of 2,000 were sharing Jesus Christ
on the beaches under the direction
of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Crusade had scheduled for the
Operation Sunshine as a time of
spiritual growth and encourage-ment
for the tasks they were fac-ing
both on the beaches and back
on their respective campuses.
The speakers included Joshua
McDowell, Campus Crusade for
Christ staff international; Rev.
Peter Lord, pastor of First Baptist
sunk a free throw with no time
left on the clock. Bethel also de-feated
St. Cloud's "B" team, after
losing to their "A" team.
Scoring honors went to Linda
Schmid who had 145 points for the
season. Sharon Johnson followed
with 127. Karla Ask captured the
free throw honors with a 100 per
cent free throw percentage.
With a winning season behind
them and with a majority of re-turning
players, the women's bas-ketball
team is looking ahead to a
good season next year.
Church, Titusville, Florida; Dave
Perry, student at Asbury College
in Kentucky; and Andre Kole, a
famed magician and an expert in
the area of extra-sensory percep-tion.
The sharing done by the Crusade
personnel known on the beaches
as the God Squad was done on a
one-to-one basis with over 2,000
decisions made during the two
week operation campaign. The
Armegeddon, a band group of
Christians, played several concerts
open to everyone. At the close of
these concerts Crusade workers
were available to share with those
present who were not acquainted
personally with Jesus Christ.
All of the Bethel people ex-pressed
that they had experienced
a real time of renewal in their
own personal lives. As Dale Saxon,
Director of Christian Service,
pointed out, "We don't want this
Operation Sunshine experience to
become a "mountaintop experi-ence"
but instead we want it to
become a new plateau of living in
the Spirit.
by Rich Zaderaka
The Royals next track meet was
uncertain at this writing because
of the cancellation of the River
Falls meet, but earlier in the week,
Coach Gene Glader was trying to
line up a spot in the St. Olaf In-vitational
which hosts fifteen oth-er
schools.
During Easter break the Royal
cindermen competed in two meets
in Missouri and also in the South
Dakota Invitational.
Coach Glader summed up the
spring trip as follows: "The trip
was good not only because it was
fun, but also because a trip like
nat makes a team a team. Living
and traveling with each other for
a week helps an athlete really get
to know his team mates and helps
to create new friendships. We did-
Bethel Royal golfers go into ac-tion
April 13 against River Falls
University of Wisconsin. The Roy-als
have been practicing indoors
for about a month and outdoors
for one week and are looking for-ward
to getting into the outdoor
season at Como Park.
Last year the Royals were 4-2
in dual matches and also were in-volved
in two invitationals: they
place thirteenth out of 19 teams
at the Cougar Invitational and
ninth of 12 teams at the Beaver
Invitational. Just on the basis of
won-lost, the season was fairly
successful.
This season Bethel will have
eleven dual matches and be in-volved
in three tournaments. This
year they have entered the NALA
District 13 Tournament, which
Coach Maurice (Mo) Shields says
they "should have been in years
ago."
Coach Sheilds sees this year
primarily as a building year due
to the addition of some good golf
schools for better competition
continued from page 3
employees. "While the government
finds it possible and necessary to
allocate millions each week to Vi-etnam
, it finds itself unable to
consider a significant and mean-ingful
pay increase for these and
other government employees. The
spending for the war in Vietnam
intensifies the problem of infla-dollars
that are needed and deserv-ed
for domestic purposes," he
said.
Hawk stressed the economic fo-cus
of the April 15 rallies. He
said, "The current inflationary
spiral was set off by the escal-ation
of the war, which caused
defense spending to rise from $50
billion in 1965 to $80 billion in
1969. It is this spending that made
real wages, in terms of buying
power, decrease from 1965 to the
present. We hope to begin on
April 15th to make clear to the
American public that the economic
dislocation which punishes nearly
everyone will not subside until the
war is ended."
Marge Sklencar, a co-oordinator
of the Committee, is currently re-organizing
the Moratorium's of-fices
in Chicago and planning the
activities for that city on April 15.
She said, "The response to our
plans in the midwest is tremend-ous.
It shows that the middle Am-n't
get as much conditioning out
of this trip as we have in past
ones because of the poor weather
(one meet was cancelled.) But it
was good to visit other schools.
It's really worthwhile for athletic
teams to travel and be able to
share in worship services as we
did."
Bethel won the meet against
Southwest Baptist of Bolivar, Mis-souri
on the strength of three
firsts by Fred Swedberg and a
pair by Dave Pound. Swedberg
won the shot put, discus and jav-elin.
Pound won the 220 and 440.
Other firsts were captured by
Mark Anderson in the half mile,
John Zylstra in the pole vault,
Paul Youngquist in the two mile
and Dave Solfelt in the triple
coupled with the graduation of
Jerry Loomis and Dave Anderson
who had successful records dur-ing
their careers. Coach Shields
doesn't see anyone to replace them,
however he stated that he did
have "a good prospect in fresh-man
Rich Borncamp" who played
at Minnehaha Academy.
Captain Steve Peterson heads
the list of team members this
year and he is looking forward to
a good year after being the out-standing
Bethel medalist of last
year. Other top returners are
sophomore Dale Finch, expected to
be one of the top three golfers,
senior Murray Sitte, and possibly
Harley Hanson. Peterson and Sitte
are lettermen.
Rounding out the roster are Tom
Anderson, Bob Elliot, Boeucamp,
Dave Healy, Mark Pound, Jeff
Swanson and Doug Weberg. Mike
Forshier, a good golf prospect
could have been helpful but is in-eligible
because he transferred last
semester from Whitewater State,
Wisconsin.
erican or the silent American is
sick of high taxes and high prices.
He is making connection between
these problems and the war. The
silent are beginning to speak out."
Her statements were supported
by a survey of the organization's
nine regional offices showing a
sizeable array of activities in what
is generally considered "silent Am-erican
country." These ranged
from major rallies in Cleveland
and Chicago. to leafletting cam-paigns
in Denver, to canvassing
for votes on an unofficial refer-endum
in Madison, to a state-wide
rally in Little Rock.
David Mixner, the fourth co-coordinator
of the Moratorium,
scored the Nixon administration,
particularly its current Southeast
Asia policy. "At the very time
polls reveal a decline in support
for the Presiden's policies, the war
in Southeast Asia is expanding,"
jump. The mile relay quartet of
Craig Anderson, Rick Berggren,
Phil James and Dave Pound also
placed first.
The meet score was Bethel 79,
Southwest 65.
On March 31, Bethel placed sec-ond
in a triangular meet in Joplin,
Missouri. Dave Pound, Fred Swed-berg,
Pete Roemer and the mile
relay nabbed firsts. Seconds were
taken by Mark Anderson, Pound
and Swedberg. Dan Mogck had a
pair of seconds in the two hurdle
events.
In the USD Invitational Bethel
ranked thirteenth of sixteen en-tries.
Fred Swedberg placed fifth
in the javelin with a throw of 174
feet 7 1/2 inches for the only team
points.
"On paper were not as strong as
last year, but we've got a couple
of teams that we added to fill in
the holes," the coach said. The
team could use fan support also.
Shields said, "The crowds were
not so big last year that the course
couldn't hold a few more people."
He added, "With a few breaks and
a little luck we could have a good
season."
Golf Schedule
April 13 River Falls
April 14 Concordia (St. Paul)
April 18 Lea
April 20 Eau Claire
April 22 Lea
April 24 St. Paul Bible
April 28 St. Thomas
April 29 Stout State
May 1 Hamline
May 2 Cougar Invitational
May 6 River Falls
May 8 N..I.A. District
May 12 Concordia (St. Paul)
May 16 Beaver Invitational at
Bemidji
he said. He called Vietnamization
"a disguise for expansion of our
military involvement into Laos
and, perhaps, Cambodia." He also
remarked that he found present
United States conduct in Laos
"frighteningly reminiscent of the
beginnings of massive involvement
in Vietnam."
NSA sponsors
bargain booklet
Coming out in the students Post
Office Box this week is a S.O.B.
Booklet, Students Own Bargains,
which contains many items which
students can buy at a savings. The
venture is sponsored by NSA, the
National Student Association. Sum-mer
tours to Europe, magazines
(i.e. Playboy at $8.50 per year),
posters, cameras, and records are
a few of the bargains which stud-ents
can take advantage of.
Bethelites soak up Florida sun
refresh physically; spiritually
Gophers think positively,
start against River Falls
Silent Americans speak;
connect war with taxes
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